A horrible homicide. But there is no evidence in that article showing that the killing was a hate crime.
Pink News also writes this:
A report released ahead of Trans Day of Remembrance (20 November) 2022 revealed that between 1 October, 2021 and 30 September, 2022 at least 327 trans and gender-diverse people have been killed around the world just for being themselves.
Globally, 27 per cent of victims died in their own homes, with 35 per cent of killings happening in the street.
Most (95 per cent) reported victims were trans women or femmes. A majority of victims (65 per cent) were people of colour, and almost half (48 per cent) were known to be sex workers.
Murders are horrible, but, once again, there is nothing to tell us why those particular individuals died, and it is incorrect to assume that a transgender person who is killed must have been killed for being transgender. Some probably were killed for the kinds of reasons many homicide victims are killed in general (domestic violence, street crime, gang violence).
I am glad to see that the total numbers of these dreadful deaths are so low for transgender people. No number of homicides is acceptable, and the rates at which sex workers are killed is a giant problem (also for women in prostitution in general), but the global numbers here suggest that most transgender people don't have to worry about being killed (or for being killed for being transgender).