23 year old Muhlaysia Booker survived a brutal April 12 assault by a mob in an apartment complex in Dallas' Oak Cliff neighborhood. Today it is my sad duty to report that Ms Booker was found shot to death Saturday morning by responding Dallas police officers at 6:40 AM CDT in the 7200 block of Valley Glen Dr. near the Tenison Park golf course in east Dallas.
Booker was pronounced dead at the scene due to 'homicidal violence'. There are also no suspects as of yet in her murder. I know where y'all can start looking, DPD. How about every transphobic fool that was videotaped throwing blows at her on April 12?
Rest in power and peace Muhlaysia.
This one's personal to me, her loved ones, BTAC and every trans Texan. As BTMI president Trenton Johnson said on my FB page, "They attack her in one month and then take her life the next!! This has to stop!"
I agree. It needs to stop. I want the waste of DNA who killed Muhlaysia to be expeditiously captured and brought to justice.
Booker is now officially the third trans person to die due to anti-trans violence in the US in 2019, and our first in the Lone Star State this year. All three trans persons who have been killed in 2019 so far have been African American
This one infuriates me even more because it not only happened here in Texas, it is because of what happened to Booker back in April. It also happens after HB 1513, a bill sponsored by Rep. Garnet Coleman that would have added trans people to the state's James Byrd Hate Crimes Act, died in the House State Affairs Committee committee for this session.
What is really pissing me off is that we are still sorting out the fallout from the transphobic April 12 mob assault on her in Oak Cliff and were engaged in getting justice for her in that case.
Now she's dead and her family is now planning her funeral.
I have to ask the question of the Texas NAACP and other organizations in the Black community not named Black Lives Matter or Black Trans Advocacy Coalition. Do y'all even care about the lives of Black trans people, much less Black trans women?
Your silence, Texas NAACP tells me otherwise.
If any memorial services are scheduled, I will pass that info along to you as I receive it.
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