Deeniquia Dodds (Courtesy of MPD)

A transgender woman who was shot on the fourth of July has died, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Police were called to the scene of an unconscious person around 3 a.m. in the 200 block of Division Avenue NE. They found 22-year-old Deeniquia Dodds suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck and rushed her to a local hospital, according to a police report. She was pronounced dead yesterday.

Police are investigating the killing as a homicide, but it is unclear if it has to do with her gender identity. “We have no [information] to suspect that this crime was motivated by hate at this time,” MPD spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said. A $25,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible.

According to her Facebook page, Dodds had attended Woodson High School. “Her murder reminds us all of how often the transgender community is targeted for violence in our society,” LGBT rights activist Earline Budd told NBC4.

An estimated 14,550 people in the District of Columbia identify as transgender, or 2.77 percent of the population, a study by UCLA’s Williams Institute found. D.C. had 70 hate crime incidents in 2014, and they were 10 times more likely to be motivated by gender identity than the national average, according to statistics from the FBI.

The last transgender woman killed in D.C. was in 2012, when Deoni Jones was stabbed at a Metro bus stop in Northeast. A bill to make it easier for transgender people to change the gender on their birth certificates was named in her honor.

In the span of less than year, two transgender women were murdered in Montgomery County. Keyonna Blakeney, 22, was found with multiple stab wounds at a Red Roof Inn in April. A 21-year-old and a 17-year-old, both from D.C., have been charged in her killing. And last fall, 21-year-old Zella Ziona was shot in the head near the Montgomery County Shopping Village. A Germantown man is being charged in the case.

This post has been updated with the correct last murder of a transgender woman in D.C.