LAPD searching for leads in suspected sex worker slayings, including that of trans woman

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Police said officers found the first victim sometime after 8 p.m. after responding to reports of a body lying on Hoover, between Slauson Avenue and West 59th Street.
The victim was apparently shot in the car after a sexual encounter that went wrong for reasons that are unclear, police said, without elaborating.
Police say that sex workers who work in the area are usually picked up by customers, who drive to one of the motels on that stretch of Figueroa or park on a nearby street.
The second incident on Figueroa happened sometime after 4 a.m. Thursday when police found a young woman who had been shot in the back of the head.