UPDATE: Initial reports incorrectly identified Kenneth Bostick as a transgender woman. We have updated this story to indicate he was a trans man.

New York City police officers arrested a suspect in conjunction with the murder of a transgender man of color who died after being beaten over the head with a pipe.

Police discovered the unconscious body of Kenneth Bostick on April 25, just blocks from the homeless shelter he'd been staying since March. Bostwick was rushed to a local hospital, but did not survive.

Medics didn't initially suspect foul play, but police soon began investigating the incident as a homicide and believe he was bashed in the head with a lead pipe. Surveillance from a Five Guys near the attack showed a man standing over Bostick's body.

Police have identifed the suspect as 26-year-old Joseph Griffin, who stayed in the same homeless shelter as Bostick in 2015.

Following the attack, Griffin reportedly rushed into oncoming traffic, climbing on a taxi and smashing its windshield. Police arrested Griffin in a subway station a half-block away the next day. His record includes 28 previous arrests.

“Other circumstantial evidence ties the defendant to the assault," said Assistant District Attorney Sarah Marquez. "And [we] expect the defendant to be charged with that crime as soon as an eyewitness to the crime returns from a trip out of the country.”

Griffin remains held on $25,000 bail.

Bostick is the tenth transgender person murdered so far this year.

“We are facing a crisis of violence," said Beverly Tillery of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. "Ten transgender [people] have already been killed so far in 2017 and this must stop. As a society we can stop this epidemic by hiring trans women of color, making sure they have safe places to live and standing up when we see or hear them being demeaned and attacked and simply by valuing their lives. The moment to act is now.”