Stephanie Houston holds a picture of her daughter, Muhlaysia Booker, outside the courtroom after the Kendrell Lyles trial ended. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) Four people gave victim impact statements on Thursday, Nov.
9, bringing Kendrell Lyles’ trial for murdering Muhlaysia Booker to a close. On Monday, Lyles pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 48 years in prison.
After Lyles was led into the courtroom handcuffed, Booker’s mother, Stephanie Houston, took the standm explaining how her daughter’s murder had caused her to sink into depression. “People judged my baby,” she said. “My treasure.
You broke me. You’ve done so much to hurt my family.” She said she warned her daughter about “the devil” then described the heartless murder.