![]() ![]() Police have not definitively said if Lyles remains a suspect in April 2019 knife attack on a trans woman who stabbed.īut while the arrests of Lyles and Alvarado helped calm fears (but not end) that a serial killer was targeting trans women in Dallas, the violence against trans women nationwide continued to escalate. Although he was initially considered a suspect in the death of Chynal Lindsey, police had, by the end of June, arrested Ruben Alvarado and charged him in her murder. Then on June 12, Dallas police announced they had arrested of Kendrell Lavar Lyles in connection with the murder of Muhlaysia Booker and two other (non-LGBTQ) people. They also announced that another trans woman had been attacked in April but survived, and they began looking again at a string of unsolved murders of trans women in Dallas - Lindsey, Armani Dante Morgan (July 2017), Brittany White (October 2018), Shade Schuler (July 2015). In fact, two weeks later, on June 1 as the LGBTQ gathered in Fair Park for Pride Weekend, Dallas police announced the murder of another trans woman, Chynal Lindsey, who’s body was found in White Rock Lake. Muhlaysia Booker was the fifth trans woman murdered in the U.S. Watch a promo video here on Instagram, then check out the first couple of minutes of the show below. ![]() The Muhlaysia Booker Foundation was created to help support our transgendered sisters and brothers as well as their families cope with this lifestyle.” ![]() Muhlaysia lived in her truth and unfortunately lost her life because of it. Houston and I are extremely honored to have MTV share Muhlaysia’s story and bring to light the everyday struggle that the transgender community faces. The show also features interviews with Muhlaysia’s mother, Stephanie Houston, and with Ahmad Goree, president of the board of the Muhlaysia Booker Foundation, which Houston was instrumental in creating after her daughter’s death. Dallas Voice Senior Staff Writer David Taffet and I were both interviewed for the show, and Dallas Voice helped provide resources. Central, MTV airs the sixth episode of Season 2 of True Life Crime, with Dometi Pongo, focusing on the assault on Muhlaysia in April and on her murder the next month. It was just the beginning of a summer of heightened fear and anger for DFW’s - and the country’s - trans community. Her murder made headlines around the country, with local and state officials attending her funeral, televised live from Cathedral of Hope. It’s been more than two years since Dallas trans woman Muhlaysia Booker was, first, brutally assaulted in a apartment complex parking lot as a crowd of onlookers laughed and jeered, and then, a month later, was found shot to death, her body dumped in an East Dallas street. Murder victim Muhlaysia Booker, left, and MTV’s ‘True Life Crime’ host Dometi Pongo ![]()
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