CINCINNATI -- Police say a man was shot to death Monday night over a quarter, Cincinnati television station WLWT reported.

Investigators said late Monday that they believe that Donald Francis was looking for spare change from passersby when he approached Geraldine Beasley in the parking lot of a gas station at Eighth and Linn streets.

Police said Beasley, 62, became angry with Francis, pulled out a gun and shot him.

"He asked her for a quarter," Chief Tom Streicher said. "That's apparently all there was to it."

Francis, 44, died in the gas station parking lot a few steps away.

“This crime is a tragedy and absolutely appalling,” said Georgine Getty, Executive Director of the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless, in a news release. “Unfortunately it’s all too common that homeless people are the victims of crime.”

Getty said that Francis' death was a hate crime.

Beasley appeared in court on Wednesday, where she was arraigned on a murder charge and ordered held on $500,000 bond.