Dallas police revealed on Wednesday that last week, they arrested 34-year-old Kendrell Lavar Lyles and charged him in connection with the May 18 shooting death of Muhlaysia Booker, a 23-year-old trans woman. But police say that they suspect that Lyles is a serial killer, and have also charged him in the slayings of two other victims, according to a KDFW TV report.
Booker, as AVN.com reported earlier, performed for the Grooby Productions site Black T-Girls under the professional name Cashmere.
According to a statement following her death, Grooby called Cashmere “one of our most popular debut models of last year.”
The other two victims police have charged Lyles with killing were not transgender, but Dallas investigators say they have identified Lyles as a “person of interest” in the death of 26-year-old trans woman Chynal Lindsey, whose body was pulled out of a lake in Dallas on June 1.
Police did not, however, state a possible motive for the murders, and did not release the names of the two other persons Lyles is accused of killing.
Booker’s murder occurred just a month after she was brutally attacked and beaten in Dallas parking lot—an assault captured on a horrifying cell phone video that spread virally online. But police now say that her murder appears unrelated to the earlier beating incident.
Dallas Police spokesperson Max Geron said that detectives are currently investigating possible connections between Lyles and several other murders in the area, CBS News reported. Those other murders may include the shooting death last year of a third trans woman, 29-year-old Brittany White, Geron said.
Police were able to connect Lyles to Booker’s murder because she was last seen while getting into an automobile that matched the description of the car Lyles allegedly drove in committing two other murders. The suspect is currently being held without bond in Collin County Jail. As of Wednesday he had not secured a lawyer, according to the media reports.
Photo By Collin County Jail
