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Dallas police are investigating a potential hate crime after a transgender woman was mobbed and beaten at an east Oak Cliff apartment complex Friday.

The incident happened in the daytime on Friday, but police didn't interview the woman until around 11:23 p.m., when she was in a Dallas-area hospital, police said.

The woman told police she had been assaulted after being involved in a minor traffic accident at the Royal Crest Apartments. She also told police the people who assaulted her used homophobic slurs during the assault.

Apparent cell phone video footage of the gruesome assault was posted to Facebook late Friday night. In the video, a mob of people surrounds the woman and a man in a white T-shirt, who punches her repeatedly and then kicks her while she is on the ground. Eventually, others join in the assault as well. After the woman has been kicked, punched and pulled across the apartment complex parking lot, the video ends with three other women helping the woman up.

Dallas Police are investigating the incident and said they are "reviewing all available evidence to determine if it will be classified as a hate crime."

 
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Police in Dallas have arrested a 29-year-old man in connection with the brutal beating of a transgender woman following a traffic accident that was caught on video.

Edward Thomas was taken into custody on Sunday over the attack on 23-year-old Muhlaysia Booker on Friday, and booked into the county jail on a charge of aggravated assault causing a serious bodily injury.

Police did not say whether anyone else would be arrested over the beating, which happened in broad daylight in front of a crowd of people, but said the case is being investigated as a hate crime.
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"Transgender woman Muhlaysia Booker, who was at the center of a viral video where she was beaten near an apartment complex, was found fatally shot in east Dallas early Saturday morning, police confirmed.

Police responded to the shooting call in the 7200 block of Valley Glen Drive at around 6:40 a.m near the Tenison Park Golf Course. She was found dead from a gunshot wound.

In a press conference on Sunday, police identified the woman as Booker. Police do not have any suspects at this time."


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Not making excuses for the beat down, but one video shows her antagonizing the crowd, you have to figure if you’re trying to piss off a large group of people, sooner or later some nut in the crowd is going to come for you. Apparently she angered the crowd enough they cheered the beat down
 
... Police do not have any suspects at this time."
That's a bullshit statement, even I know one fucking suspect they should be looking at.

When it comes to being transgendered, the urban black culture is as ruthless to them as the rural redneck culture is. Surprising how much those two cultures have in common, besides shitty music.
 
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Looks like she or he, it's not really clear to me, was involved in a violent drugged lifestyle that would not be news except for the trendy "transgender" label. Otherwise , this would just be a minor mention of " black drug crime" that no one would give a damn about, although they should. Let's not kid ourselves, that's a thing we can't touch in regular media. The rapper community handles it thoroughly for us.
 
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Live on a borrowed dime .. someone eventually collects or you use the borrowed time up yourself .. living fast and hard always has one result .. you loose .. another life wasted .. forget the bullshit of color, gender, etc... it’s a life that could have been so much .. that meant the world to someone destroyed by purposeful careless selfish actions ..
 
"Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 34, was charged with murder in the slaying of Muhlaysia Booker, a 22-year-old transgender woman who found shot to death in the city last month.

Lyles was also named as a person of interest in the death of another black transgender woman, 26-year-old Chynal Lindsay, whose body was found in a Dallas lake less than a month after Booker’s murder. Police are also looking to see if he could be linked to the deaths of other transgender women in the city."

 
DALLAS - The trial for the man accused of beating a transgender woman at an apartment complex in East Oak Cliff is set to start this week.

Edward Thomas faces an aggravated assault charge for the beating of 23-year-old Muhlaysia Booker. The April attack was captured on cell phone video. Booker was found murdered a month later, although Thomas is not charged in connection to that crime.

Jury selection is expected to start Tuesday. If all goes as planned, the trial will begin on Wednesday.
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Investigators say 29-year-old Edward Thomas is the man seen in the video beating Booker as a large crowd watched on. Thomas was later arrested and charged with aggravated assault. Police said someone in the crowd offered Thomas $200 to beat Booker.
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Booker had intended on testifying in Thomas' trial, but she was killed in an unrelated shooting a month later. Her body was found on the side of the road in Old East Dallas. Kendrell Lyles has been arrested and charged in that case.
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Thomas has been held in the Dallas County jail since May.

 
Edward Dominic Thomas, 31, the man convicted in 2019 of assaulting transgender woman Muhlaysia Booker in an apartment complex parking lot, has been arrested by Dallas police for allegedly killing a woman outside an east Oak Cliff restaurant.
Thomas was originally charged with felony assault after video of him beating Muhlaysia Booker went viral in April of 2019. But a jury convicted him on the lesser charge of misdemeanor assault in October that year, and he was sentenced to 300 days in jail.
In the early hours of Sept. 20, police responding to a call of a shooting at the Williams Chicken in the 2800 block of East Ledbetter found 41-year-old LaShanda Wilson dead in the parking lot behind the restaurant with a single-gunshot wound to the chest.
According to a witness, Wilson had stepped in to help her friend, who was being attacked by two other women and Thomas, who had arrived at the restaurant with the two other women, told those women to attack Wilson. Security video shows Thomas handing one of the women a stun gun to use on Wilson.

The arrest affidavit says that after hearing her friend scream for help, Wilson pulled out a handgun and may have fired twice. At that point, according to the affidavit, Thomas got a gun from a nearby car and shot Wilson. Thomas and the two women he was with then left in that same car, a white Kia, and drove to Baylor University Medical Center because of the women had been wounded.

The first time detectives talked to Thomas about the shooting, he denied shooting Wilson, and he denied even having a gun, although he did admit handing a stun gun to one of the women. Police released him after that first interview, but then arrested him after a witness identified him as the shooter in a photo lineup. The affidavit says police also received several anonymous tips identifying Thomas as the shooter.

The Morning News also notes that Thomas was arrested his past April and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon after Dallas police found a handgun under the driver’s seat of his car. He was released on a $10,000 bond, and that case is still pending.
 
Why the hell was he allowed out on the streets after beating that transgender only to commit other violent crimes? And since he has a propensity for getting others to do the dirty work for him, it would not surprise me if he put that scary-looking dude up to killing her...
 
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A Texas man pleaded guilty to the 2019 shooting death of transgender woman Muhlaysia Booker, who made national news a month before her death when she was beaten by a mob over a minor car accident.
As a result of the plea deal with prosecutors, Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 37, will be sentenced to 48 years in prison for killing Booker, 23, in Dallas, the Dallas County District Attorney's Office said.

Just before the start of Lyles’s murder trial on Monday, he entered into the plea agreement with prosecutors and pleaded guilty, the Dallas County District Attorney's Office said.
Booker’s tragic slaying came to light on May 18, 2019, when police responded to a report of a shooting on Valley Glen Drive in northeastern Dallas, Dallas Police Major Vincent Weddington said at a press conference at the time.

“Upon arrival, officers found the complainant lying face down in the street deceased from homicidal violence,” Weddington said.

The victim had no identification with her at the time of her alleged shooting death and was identified the following day as Booker, he said.

Name: LYLES,KENDRELL LAVAR

Maximum Sentence Date: 2068-03-09
Projected Release Date: 2068-03-09

Parole Eligibility Date: 2044-03-09

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2019-05-18MURDER2023-11-06DALLASF-19-7592648-00-00
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A man charged with felony aggravated assault in the beating of Muhlaysia Booker — a transgender woman from Dallas — has been convicted of misdemeanor assault.
The Dallas Morning News reported Dallas County jurors deliberated about four hours Monday before convicting Edward Dominic Thomas of the lesser charge in Muhlaysia Booker's beating.

Earlier in Thomas' trial, his attorney Andrew Wilkerson, was arrested for disrupting the court, making side bar comments, arguing with the court and refusing to abide by the Courtroom decorum rules.
Thomas was sentenced to 300 days in jail, including time served since his April arrest, on the condition that he doesn't appeal the sentence. That leaves a little more than four months left for him to serve.
 
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