CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Nearly two months after a house fire in Charlotte, new details have been released about the body found in the ruins.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and the Charlotte Fire Department responded to a house fire on Kenley Lane around 6 a.m. on July 27. Police officers say they secured the scene before crews left.  Investigators say on July 30, an insurance adjuster went to the house, found human remains, and called 911. 

Police identified the remains as Vernon Walker on September 3. Friends of Walker say she was a transgender woman, known in the community as Bubba. 

Clarabelle Catlin, one of Bubba's friends, says Bubba was like a mother to a lot of people in Charlotte's transgender community, and was known to stay in the Steele Creek area. 

According to the Human Rights Campaign, 19 other transgender women were murdered this year. Catlin says she's afraid Bubba will be part of the growing statistics. 

"I think someone could have murdered her. At a time where trans people are like, dying and being killed, and murdered, I wouldn't rule that out," Catlin said. "She was really skillful, and she was cautious in everything she did, and I don't believe that she would be in that fire and not have gotten out of the fire, or that she would've knew something was wrong."

The Charlotte Fire Department says the cause of the fire is still under investigation. CMPD says right now, this is still being classified as a death investigation.

Police are asking anyone with information to call 704-432 TIPS and speak with a homicide unit detective.