The Murder of Kandis Capri (UNSOLVED)

"Kandis was who you called the queen bee; she kept it real at all times. There will never be another Kandis Capri." says Joyde Brown, a close friend of Kandis' who considered her like a sister.

Kandis was a transgender woman who was murdered by gunshot wounds outside of an apartment complex, where she was staying with a friend, on August 11, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. Capri began transitioning from male-to-female in 2012, not having acceptance from her mother at first but she eventually came around saying "Initially I was against it, but eventually I determined that was my child, and I still loved him, and I accepted him as he was."

Kandis was taking classes at South Mountain Community College and was close with family and friends, with them saying "She was kind and a vivacious personality."

During the investigation detectives uncovered footage of Capri and an unidentified man at a gas-station, they believe the unknown male to be involved with her death. Kandis is seen on camera about to enter the glass door of the gas-station when she was approached by the unknown male, glanced at him, then turned and walked away. The man then moves out of frame. He is described as a black male, early to mid-twenties and was seen in the video wearing a baseball cap and a number twenty-three Chicago Bulls jersey.

Capri's last moments leading up to her murder were described as on Tuesday August 11, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Kandis worried that a car she had been renting was either being towed or was about to be towed, so she left her roommate's apartment to check on her car. Shortly after she was shot three to four times in the front and back of her body. She was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. At 5:30 the following morning, Capri's mother was notified by police that Kandis was murdered. Capri's mother, Andria Gaines has suspected that her daughter's murder has been a hate crime ever since; however no leads have come from police video of the suspect, so the reasonings for the murder remain unknown.