The killing of Andrea Doria Dos Passos while she slept outside points to a need for safe shelter options for transgender people, advocates said.

Gregory Fitzgerald Gibert was only out of jail for six days when police say he beat a transgender woman to death with a pipe as she slept next to a ballet auditorium on Miami Beach.

Andrea Doria Dos Passos’ body was found with lacerations on her face and back of her head and two wooden sticks lodged into her nostrils, police said.

MIAMI - An arrest has been made after the body of a woman, who was brutally beaten in front of the Miami City Ballet on Miami Beach, was discovered early Tuesday morning. Gregory Gibert, 53, was charged with second-degree murder.

In a poignant display of community solidarity, loved ones and supporters gathered Thursday night to remember the transgender woman who was brutally murdered earlier this week near the Miami City Ballet.

In life, Andrea Doria Dos Passos surrounded herself with a community that loved her, which surprised and pleased her mother, who long worried she was alone in the world. In death, those same friends and supporters held a vigil Thursday to honor a life taken away in a senseless,

For the first time, we are hearing from the mother of a 37-year-old transgender woman who police say was beaten to death​ early Tuesday with a metal pipe.