The arrest comes as investigators work to solve a spate of murders of young, black transgender women in the area.
Dallas police said that after a woman died in a shooting on May 22, someone called in a tip that Lyles was responsible.
Then, on May 23, officers responded to another shooting, where another witness told police that she and the suspect had gone to meet with a woman for a drug deal. When she walked up to the car, the witness said Lyles shot her and she later died. While investigating those two murders, detectives realized that the suspect drove the same type of car, a light colored Lincoln LS sedan, as the one that picked up Booker on May 18, said Dallas Police Major Max Geron. Cell phone data also showed that Lyles had allegedly been to the Spring and Lagow area, where Booker was last seen alive, and at the scene of the murder.
Investigators are also still looking for ties to another murder of a transgender woman, 27-year-old Armani Danti Morgan, whose remains were found in a field in July 2017. The Dallas County medical examiner ruled her death as"unexplained."
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