Courtesy of Montgomery County Police

A 21-year-old and a 17-year-old have been charged in the killing of a transgender woman in a Rockville hotel room. Keyonna Blakeney was found with multiple stab wounds at a Red Roof Inn last month.

Keith Christopher Renier and Arbra Arnie Bethea, both of Southeast D.C., are charged with first-degree murder in her death, along with armed robbery, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Bethea, who is 17, has been charged as an adult.

Police believe Blakeney and several acquaintances were renting rooms to “engage in prostitution,” and there was a confrontation with the two suspects in the early morning of Saturday, April 16.

After living from hotel to hotel, Blakeney had found an apartment and was getting ready to move in at the end of the month, her sister told The Washington Post. “She loved doing people’s makeup … She loved fashion. She loved all the glamorous stuff girls do.”

It was the second homicide of a transgender woman in Montgomery County in less than a year. 21-year-old Zella Ziona was shot in the head around 5:49 p.m in an alley that separates the Montgomery Village Plaza and the Montgomery Village Crossing shopping centers in October. Rico Hector Leblond, 20, has been charged in Ziona’s killing. Investigators said the two knew each other.

Charging documents state that Leblond hid behind a dumpster and shot her once from a distance and then continued to fire at close range, NBC4 reported. “The nature of this crime here in Montgomery County I think is unprecedented,” Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy told the outlet at the time.