Candace Towns was found dead in Macon between two neglected houses on Halloween.
Towns, 30, was last seen on surveillance video of a gas station near the Roadway Inn where she was living. She had been shot and abandoned.
A human rights group says Towns was the fourth reported transgender person killed in Georgia this year, and 25th nationwide.
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