DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Police Department said Wednesday that a suspected serial killer is linked to at least one recent death in a string of transgender murders.
According to DPD, on May 22, Officers responded to a shooting at 7815 McCallum Blvd, in the City of Dallas, inside Collin County. A female victim was shot and later died. A citizen called in a tip telling us that Kendrell Lavar Lyles, a Black male, 34-year-old, committed this murder. According to Major Max Geron, during the course of the investigation, homicide detectives were given additional information from a witness who had contact with the Lyles and provided details known only to the suspect. The information was verified through phone records of communication between the victim and Lyles at the time of her death. After determining that Lyles was a suspect in the murder, a warrant was issued and Lyles was arrested on June 5.
On May 23, Dallas Police responded to another shooting at 17509 Coit Road, also in Collin County. A witness alleges that she and Lyles drove to meet with the victim to engage in a drug transaction. Police said the victim walked up to her car and he was shot by Lyles and later died.
During the course of investigating these two cases, detectives recognized that Lyles drove the same type car that is believed to have picked up Muhlaysia Booker on May 18. Booker, atransgender woman, was found dead of a gunshot wound in a Dallas street in May. Cell phone analysis indicated that Lyles frequented the Spring and Lagow area where Booker was believed to have been before her murder. It further put him around Spring and Lagow at the time Booker was picked up on May 18 and later at the scene of her murder. Muhlaysia Booker was last seen getting into a light colored Lincoln LS, which is the same type of car driven by Lyles.
Lyles has been charged with 3 counts of Murder. Geron said Lyles is also the person of interest in the murder of a transgender woman found dead last month in White Rock Lake. It’s not known if he was involved in a 2018 transgender murder in Dallas or the violent attack of a transgender woman in April.
“We will continue to investigate the rest of the cases to see if he was involved in anyway,” Major Geron said.
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