Lyles on trial — finally
Muhlaysia Booker The man accused of killing Muhlaysia Booker is scheduled for his day in court DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.com On Monday, Nov.
6, more than four years after Muhlaysia Booker was found shot to death on an East Dallas street, the murder trial begins for Kendrell Lavar Lyles, the man charged in her death.
The trial will be held in Judge Carter Thompson’s court in the Crowley Courts building. Dallas police on Saturday, May 18, at about 6:44 a.m., reported that the body of a Black woman had been found lying face down in the 7200 block of Valley Glen Drive.
At about 3 p.m. the following day, police issued a statement identifying that woman as trans woman Muhlaysia Booker. Booker was the fourth transgender woman, all of them Black trans women, to be murdered in 2019.
