GUILTY TX - Two transgender women found dead in separate incidents, Dallas, May/June 2019

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From attacks on transgender women to a mass shooting at a party, the crime stories that defined 2019

"This time, I can stand before you, where in other scenarios, we're at a memorial," Muhlaysia Booker told the crowd at a rally April 20, eight days after she was viciously beaten. About a month after the rally, she was found shot to death.(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)
Attacks on Muhlaysia Booker and other trans women

Muhlaysia Booker, a 22-year-old transgender woman, was beaten by a mob of men in April after backing into another vehicle at an east Oak Cliff apartment complex. Just over a month later, she was found face down on a Far East Dallas street, dead from a gunshot wound.

In between the attacks, Booker spoke at a rally where she called for others to come together and stop attacks on transgender people — advocates say Texas leads the nation in transgender murders. (Police would later note that a transgender woman was stabbed in South Dallas the day after Booker was beaten.) But days after Booker’s death, 26-year-old Chynal Lindsey was found dead in White Rock Lake. And 35-year-old Daniela Calderon was shot multiple times in northwest Dallas in September.


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‘Are you afraid of dying?’ Transgender woman attacked in Dallas tells her story for the first time
‘Are you afraid of dying?’ Transgender woman attacked in Dallas tells her story for the first time
By Lauren McGaughy
Edward Dominic Thomas, 29, who was seen punching Booker in the April video, was convicted of a misdemeanor count of assault in November and sentenced to 300 days in jail, including time served. The man accused of her murder, 34-year-old Kendrell Lavar Lyles, has been in custody since June and faces two other, unrelated murder charges."

 

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May 6 2021 rbbm.
'My heart is bleeding': Transgender woman's shooting death devastates community
''The first day Iris Santos wore a dress to Elsik High School in Alief, a group of boys sexually harassed her, called her slurs and threw a trash can at her.

But the transgender teen wasn’t fazed. Relatives say she was unapologetically herself, a trait many admired. The joy and relief Santos felt presenting herself for the first time outweighed any negativity.

“I’m me now,” Santos told her sister, Louvier Santos. “I’m finally me.”

''Santos, 22, was shot to death around 9:30 p.m. April 23 as she sat at a table outside Chick-fil-A in the 8600 block of Westheimer. No arrests have been made in the case, and police said they have not yet determined if Santos was targeted because she was transgender.''
''Increase in violence
So far in 2021, 20 transgender or gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the U.S., according to HRC, putting it on pace to have more than the record 44 killings recorded by the nonprofit in 2020.
“Texas has been the epicenter of U.S. deaths of trans people in the past five years,” said Diamond Stylz, executive director of the nonprofit Black Trans Women Inc.


The day after Santos was killed, 38-year-old Tiffany Thomas, a Black transgender woman, was shot to death in Dallas.


Violence against transgender people, especially Black and Hispanic women, has increased in recent years for many reasons, Stylz said.''

 

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Man Found Guilty, Sentenced in 2019 Killing of Black Transgender Woman

A Dallas County jury has handed down a guilty verdict in the 2019 murder of Chynal Lindsey, a Black transgender woman, and sentenced her killer to 37 years behind bars Thursday.

According to our media partners at The Dallas Morning News, 24-year-old Ruben Alvarado was convicted Wednesday. In his testimony, Alvarado said he killed Lindsey after he learned that she was transgender.