CHICAGO, Illinois -- A mother in Chicago is in mourning after her daughter was shot and killed in Dolton.
D'isaya Monaee Smith was shot and killed at Prestige Motel in Dolton early morning on Labor Day.
"I'm relying on God right now to keep holding me up because it's hard," her mother Latrina Banks cried to the local NBC News station.
"At the hotel room door you can tell the struggle was at the door it was not inside the hotel room," she continued. "There's blood, there's like a trail of blood at the entrance way right there from the hallway area."
Banks is understandably taking her daughter's death hard. Back in 2018, she also lost her son to gun violence. She shared that her daughter transitioned after graduating from high school.
Banks told the news outlet that she Facetimed with her from the motel room just hours before she was found dead. She says Smith was out with two female friends but her friends said they left her motel room as they were tired.
Banks is now pleading for members of the public to come forward with any information about her daughter's killing.
"Whoever knows anything about my baby's murder please tell. Ya'll took the best thing ever from me," she beseeched.
"She loved to dress, she loved to party, she loved to cook, she loved to do her hair, she loved to take care of people," she said. "She's been like that ever since she was little."
At least 35 transgender people have been murdered this year -- three from the Chicago area.
"I really don't know if it was a hate crime," said Banks. "I really don't know if it was friends that you know, envied her I don't know, I really don't know. People need to love on everyone, let people live, you can not change anyone's life style," said Banks.
"If you don't like the lifestyle walk away. You can not harass anyone, that's not what you're here for, let these people live."
The investigation is ongoing. Authorities do not believe Smith was a victim of a hate crime at this time.