This undated booking photo provided by the Baltimore Police Department shows Ricky Shawatza Hall, 27, who was killed March 30, 2015, when National Security Agency police opened fire on the stolen car Hall was driving, that then crashed into a police vehicle at the entrance to the NSA in Fort Meade, Md. AP Photo/Baltimore Police Department

BALTIMORE -- The driver killed in a confrontation at a National Security Agency gate identified as transgender and was a sex worker in Baltimore, according to a friend.

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Police took no chances when two men dressed as women drove an SUV toward a security gate outside the National Security Agency in Maryland. A fire...

Ricky Shawatza Hall, 27, was killed Monday when NSA police opened fire on a stolen car that then crashed into a police vehicle. A passenger, Kevin Fleming, was wounded, as was an officer.

Kayla Brooks, who works at a transgender outreach program in Baltimore, said Hall went by the name Mya, and that she last saw her on Sunday. Brooks says Hall "seemed high and was looking for a date" while walking up and down a Baltimore strip known as a hotspot for sex work.

Friends told CBS Baltimore that Hall had recently gotten out of prison and was trying to get back on her feet.

"I say she's in a better place and I just pray for her soul because at the end of the day, we have to set examples for our community," friend Ah'Tourai Stevens said.

Court documents show Hall had a criminal record. In 2013, she was charged after she assaulted a woman and stole a bottle of methadone from her pocket. Hall had been wearing a yellow dress at the time of the assault, the documents show. In 2014, Hall was charged with robbery after stealing a vest and skirt from a Baltimore clothing store.

On Monday, police determined that Hall and her passenger were driving the SUV of a 60-year-old Baltimore man, who told investigators he had picked up the two strangers in Baltimore and brought them to a Howard County motel.

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Driver killed at NSA was transgender sex worker, friend says