Dallas police have asked the FBI to help them after three unsolved murders of trans women in recent months.

In a press conference yesterday (5 June) Dallas police pleaded to the public for any information they can provide.

Three trans women, Chynal Lindsay, , and a third, unidentified trans woman were all killed in Texas.

A specter of a spree of violence targeting one of the most marginalized communities in the city has stretched the authorities.

The latest, Linsday, 26, was pulled out of White Rock Lake bearing ‘obvious signs of homicidal violence’ on 1 June, .

Police Chief Renée Hall told reporters that authorities did not have the ‘evidence to substantiate’ whether a serial killer was involved.

However, she asked that the public remain vigilant and come forward with any information they might have.

‘We are concerned – we are actively and aggressively investigating this case.’

Hall added that the police force have contacted the FBI for the government agency to assist their investigations.

‘We are concerned, we are actively and aggressively investigating this case and we have reached out to our federal partners to assist us in these efforts.’

Now, that’s the question.

Authorities also  that these recent cases did not appear to be directly related, but they did bear ‘some similarities that the public should be made aware of.’

Major Vincent Weddington said the department are investigating four unsolved murders of black trans women: two that occurred in 2019, one in 2018 and one in 2015.

Furthermore, the department said in a a trans woman was found in a field in July 2017.

It said that case was classified as an ‘unexplained death.’

In a statement, LGBTI group said Lindsey’s killing was ‘especially tragic coming at the beginning of Pride Month.’

Fatal attacks on trans women have soared in recent years. In fact, the FBI recorded 7,175 hate crimes in the US in 2017.

Among them, 1,130 were based on sexual orientation bias and 119 on gender identity bias.

And more than 100 of those victims were people of color, according to the report.

Moreover, according to data complied by the Human Rights Campaign, at least five trans women have been violently killed in the country  and at least 26 were killed .

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