Remembering Our Dead

V. Olvera

V. was shot multiple times with a shotgun by her former lover Isaac Fountain. Fountain had hunted her down after he found out that she was trans.

A man already charged in connection with a 2004 slaying now stands accused of fatally shooting a [trans woman] six years earlier after learning that the victim, with whom he'd had a brief sexual relationship, was not a [cisgender] woman but [was trans]. Isaac Fountain, 26, was charged with murder Thursday in connection with the slaying of 19-year-old [deadname] Olvera of Fort Worth. "The motive appeared to be that he had a previous relationship with the victim, not knowing that the victim was actually trans]," said homicide Sgt. J.D. Thornton.

"He later found out from some of his friends that [Olvera] [was trans] and then he basically hunted [her] down and killed [her]." A man walking behind the Shop & Stop convenience store in the 2600 block of South Riverside Drive on the night of Sept. 8, 1998, found Olvera's body, dressed in women's clothing, a few feet from a sidewalk. [She] had been shot several times with a shotgun, police have said.

Fountain, who court records also identify as Gerald Walker, remains in federal prison in Fort Worth in connection with Operation Fish Bowl, a 20-month local and federal investigation of the southeast Fort Worth drug trade that led to 40 drug trafficking indictments.

He was charged with capital murder in February in the robbery and fatal shooting of 24-year-old Keiss Allison. Allison was gunned down in the 4900 block of Flamingo Road while running from two armed men who went to his apartment on July 25, 2004, and robbed him of drugs and money. A second man, 24-year-old DeMarkcus L. Clark, is also charged with capital murder in connection with Allison's death. Thornton said it was during Detective Matt Hardy's investigation of the Allison case that Fountain also surfaced as a suspect in Olvera's death.

"He interviewed several persons, one of which indicated that Fountain was also involved in the murder of a [trans woman] some years ago," Thornton said. "Hardy was able to locate the case matching the details given by the witness."

https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-murder-of-trans/77566381/

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Report added: 17 Feb 2019. Last updated: 7 Mar 2026

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