Kayra Kamilly was 33 years old when her body was found abandoned in a vacant lot in Guarujá, Brazil, on the coast of São Paulo state. Local reporting says she had suffered severe violence, including a head injury described in the police record as compatible with crushing. By the time Kayra was discovered on Aug. 27, her body was already in an advanced state of decomposition, leaving investigators to reconstruct a killing that had occurred before anyone found her.
Kayra was found in the Jardim Três Marias area, near Rua Cláudio dos Santos and Rua Azor Gomes de Almeida. Police and forensic teams were called to the scene, and her body was removed for examination while investigators began trying to reconstruct what had happened before she was left there. Authorities requested necroscopic, fingerprint and toxicological examinations as part of the investigation.
The condition in which Kayra was found makes the period before her discovery central to the investigation. Authorities still have to determine when she died, what caused her death, where the fatal violence occurred and whether the vacant lot was where she was killed or where her body was later abandoned. Those answers matter because Kayra entered the public record only after her death, leaving investigators to reconstruct what happened from the evidence that remained.
Local police registered Kayra’s death as a homicide and referred the investigation to the 3rd Homicide Division of Deic. As of the latest local reporting, authorities had not publicly identified or arrested a suspect. The case therefore remains open at its most basic level: investigators still have to establish who killed Kayra and what happened before her body was found.
🎥 Scene in Guarujá, Brazil, where Kayra Kamilly was found dead.
The street where Kayra was found appears ordinary in daylight, lined with homes, trees, utility poles and a long wall bordering the property. Behind that location is a 33-year-old trans woman whose life ended violently and whose final hours remain largely unknown to the public.
Kayra’s identity matters in how her death is recorded. She was a trans woman, and the severe violence done to her, the condition in which her body was found and the vacant lot where she was left are part of the homicide record, not the totality of who she was. Preserving her name, gender and humanity while investigators pursue accountability is part of what is still owed to her.
Her death also sits inside a broader reality in Brazil, where trans women and travestis remain disproportionately exposed to lethal violence. ANTRA documented 80 murders of trans people and travestis in 2025 and has warned that gaps in official records leave civil-society groups carrying much of the burden of preserving these deaths. Trans United has documented a related public-record danger in the United States, where the removal or weakening of trans identity in official records can make violence harder to track and preserve. Kayra’s killing belongs inside that wider pattern without being reduced to it.
The absence of a publicly identified suspect leaves the central facts of Kayra’s death unresolved. Investigators still have to determine who inflicted the fatal violence, reconstruct what happened before her body was found and establish how she came to be left in the vacant lot. Until those questions are answered, the homicide remains unfinished in the public record and accountability remains incomplete.
Kayra Kamilly deserves to remain at the center of that record as more than a homicide victim or crime-scene description. Accountability now means identifying who killed her, establishing what happened before her death and preserving the name and identity of the 33-year-old trans woman whose life was violently taken in Guarujá.
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