Dallas Police Department officials are investigating a possible connection between attacks on three transgender women over the past seven months, and whether they should be deemed hate crimes.
"At this time, the department is actively looking into whether or not these assaults [and] murders have any connection to one another," Dallas Police Maj. Vincent Weddington said at a press conference Tuesday."At this time, we have not been able to draw up an affirmative link between these offenses. We're working to see if there is any link."
Booker had been assaulted by a group of people in the parking lot of an apartment complex in a separate incident last month. She told police that the beating occurred after a minor traffic accident and that her attackers shouted homophobic and transphobic slurs at her. The incident was captured in a video that was shared widely on social media.
A second transgender woman, 29-year-old Brittany White, was shot and killed inside her car in southeast Dallas in October 2018, according to police. All three cases remain open investigations. Two of the victims were attacked after getting into a vehicle with someone, while one victim allowed someone into her car, according to police.
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