The Murder of Elexius Woodland (UNSOLVED)

Elexius Nicole Woodland was a twenty-four-year-old transgender woman who was murdered in an attempted robbery on December 2, 2005.

At approximately 1:20 AM on Friday December 2, 2005 at the 2000 Block of Savannah Terrace, SE, Elexius and a friend were walking home from a local convenience store after buying food; when they were approached by at least two men in a dark car who demanded money from them. One of the two men fired a handgun. No money was taken. Woodland died from injuries to her face and stomach, while her friend was treated at a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries. Police are not ruling the homicide a hate crime.

A vigil was held on the 1900 Block of Savannah Terrace, SE for Elexius at 6 PM the day she died.

On December 19 of that year police issued a statement; seeking a suspect in the murder of Woodland, most likely compiled by the friend who survived the shooting. The killer is described as a black male in his twenties, approximately five-feet-eleven inches to six-feet tall, one-hundred sixty to one-hundred seventy pounds, with a slight mustache, and his hair in plats or dreads. So far a composite sketch of the killer has not been released.