An attack that a police detective describes as “very vicious and violent” has authorities searching for the killer of a 45-year-old transgender woman found dead two weeks ago in her Miami apartment. Family identified the victim as Alexus Braxton. “Whoever did this, you need to come forward,” Braxton’s sister, who gave her name as Neki, told NBC Miami. “You hurting our family. You hurting everyone around us, and we want to know, why, why, why would you do it? What would the reason be for you to do such a crime and do such an act on a beautiful person?” In a video news release, Miami-Dade Police Det. Juan Segovia said: “The family has been left with no closure. They’re suffering tremendously because of the death and the manner in which our victim … was murdered.”