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Suspected serial killer Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 34, charged with three murders, including the killing of a transgender woman in Dallas in May

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Male suspect charged with three murders, including the killing of a transgender woman in Dallas in May
Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 34, has been arrested for the murder of transgender woman Muhlaysia Booker, 23, and two additional, unnamed women
Lyles, 33, is also a person of interest in murder of 26-year-old transgender woman, Chynal Lindsey 
A game warden pulled Chynal Lindsey’s body from White Rock Lake on June 1 
On May 18, 23-year-old Muhlaysia Booker was found dead about 4 miles away
Investigators said Lyles’ car matched the witness description of the vehicle Booker was seen entering on May 18, the night she was later found dead
There are similarities in the murders of the women police said
Lyles was being held without bond in the Collin County Jail in McKinney
 
Muhlaysia Booker 4Lyles, 34, allegedly shot and killed 23-year-old transgender woman Muhlaysia Booker, [photo], last month in Dallas, Texas
Detectives found that Lyles’ car matched the description of the one witnesses reported seeing Booker enter on May 18, the night she was later found dead, Geron told reporters.
Booker was discovered face down in a field on Valley Glen Drive near Ferguson Road at around 7am.
‘We don’t know the motive [for the murders] at this point. We know that the meeting for one [Collin County] murder was, according to the witness, to engage in a drug transaction. The reason for the shooting [of Booker] is still unknown at this point,’ Chief Geron said
Even before Lindsey was found dead, police officials had said they were investigating a possible connection between the shooting deaths of Booker and another transgender woman, 29-year-old Brittany White, as well as the nonfatal stabbing of a third transgender woman.
Detectives continue to investigate the White slaying which occurred in October, Geron said. 
Kendrell Lavar Lyles, [left] and Chynal Lindsey 1Lyles [left] is also a person of interest in the murder of Chynal Lindsey, [right] a 26-year-old transgender woman who was found floating face down in a lake in Dallas on June 1
Booker’s death came a month after a cellphone video showed her being brutally beaten in a separate incident. Police have said that no evidence was found to link Booker’s death to her April 12 beating following a minor traffic accident.
According to a police affidavit , the other driver involved in the accident had a gun and refused to let Booker leave until she paid for the damage to his vehicle.
A crowd gathered and someone offered a man $200 to beat the woman. Other men also struck her, while one stomped on her head. Booker suffered a concussion, fractured wrist and other injuries, police said.
Video of the attack, which was shared on social media, showed Booker being beaten as the crowd hollered and watched. Edward Thomas, 29, was arrested and jailed on an aggravated assault charge.
Thomas’ attorneys have issued a statement saying Thomas wasn’t involved in Booker’s death and sending condolences to her family.
Chynal Lindsey was killed within two weeks of Muhlaysia Booker.
Police Chief U. Renee Hall said her killing showed ‘obvious signs of homicidal violence’, but investigators refused to say specifically how she died.
Her body was pulled from White Rock Lake on June 1 and her apparent murder is now the fourth involving black transgender women in North Texas since 2015.
‘We are concerned,’ Hall said. ‘And we are actively and aggressively investigating this case. And we have reached out to our federal partners to assist us in these efforts.’
 
White Rock Lake in Dallas Texas 1FBI are investigating a string of transgender women’s deaths in Dallas after a game warden pulled Chynal Lindsey’s body from White Rock Lake at 5.32pm on June 1 after spoting the body. She was the fourth black transgender woman to have been murdered in the area since 2015
Geron said Wednesday that Lyles’ car matched the description of the one that witnesses said they saw Booker enter on May 18, the night she was later found fatally shot, and which was a familiar sight in South Dallas, where she was last seen.
“We don’t know the motive at this point,” Geron siad. “We know that the meeting for one [Collin County] murder was, according to the witness, to engage in a drug transaction. The reason for the shooting is still unknown at this point.”
The suspect Kendrell Lyles is also a person of interest in the death of Chynal Lindsey, 26, a transgender woman whose body was pulled from White Rock Lake in northeast Dallas on June 1, Geron told reporters.
Booker was found shot to death, a little more than a month after she survived the brutal beating in Dallas.
Police said in May that Booker’s death bore similarities to other attacks on transgender women.
 
Chynal Lindsey under her birth name of Jason Haslett 1 2Police took the unusual step of releasing photos of transwoman Chynal Lindsey under her birth name Jason Haslett [photo], in the months before her death
The FBI has said it is ‘prepared to assist’ if evidence of a potential civil rights violation comes to light.
‘We will continue to work with the Dallas Police Department as well as all our community partners to address any concerns,’ the FBI said in a statement. 
Dallas police said the department was actively looking for links to this case and the June 1 murder and two other killings.
October 21, 2018, 29-year-old Brittany White was found shot to death in a vehicle parked near an elementary school in far southeastern Dallas, police said.
Dallas Fire Rescue and Dallas police responded to an unconscious person inside a vehicle at 7100 Gayglen Drive. It’s about 7 miles from where Booker was found and 10 miles from Lindsey’s bidy was recovered.
Upon their arrival, they discovered the victim, birth namd Traylon Brown, dead inside the vehicle from ‘homicidal violence’. 
And on On July 29, 2015 at 8.50am, Shade Schuler, 22, was found dead in a field on the 600 block of Riverside Drive with a gunshot wound.
That field is located around 14 miles from where White was found, 10 miles from where Booker was found and 9 miles from where Lindsey was found.
‘These cases, although not directly related at this time, do have some similarities the public needs to be aware of,’ Maj. Vincent Weddington said during a news conference in May about the deaths of Booker and White, plus an unnamed person who survived a stabbing in April.
Weddington noted that two of the crimes were carried out in a similar part of the city and all three victims either got into a car with someone else or allowed someone to get into a vehicle with them.
 
Brittany White 2Last October, Brittany White, a 29-year-old, was found shot to death in a vehicle parked near an elementary school in far southeastern Dallas, police saidShade Schuler 1On July 29, 2015 at 8.50am, Shade Schuler, 22, was found dead in a field on the 600 block of Riverside Drive with a gunshot wound. Its around 14 miles from White, 10 miles from Booker and 9 miles from Lindsey
Lindsey was found nearby where Muhlaysia Booker died in May, Brittany White was found October 2018 and Shade Schuler was discovered July 2015Lindsey was found nearby where Muhlaysia Booker died in May, Brittany White was found October 2018 and Shade Schuler was discovered July 2015
 

Booker was killed at a location that is about a 4-mile walk away from where Lindsey was found via the White Rock Lake trail.
At least 26 transgender women were reported killed in 2018 and 29 in 2017, according to Human Rights Campaign, the largest US advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender [LGBT] people.
Protesters chanting ‘black trans lives matter’ and ‘we will not be erased’ last month demanded an end to the killings of black transgender women in the United States and decried the Trump administration’s proposals to reverse transgender rights.
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a rule that would roll back protection for transgender patients under Obamacare. The current stance of HHS under Trump is that protections against discrimination on the basis of sex do not apply to transgender people.
 
 
 

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