A 22-year-old man was arrested Thursday in connection with the death of Chynal Lindsey, a transgender woman whose body was found in White Rock Lake earlier this month, Dallas police said.
Ruben Alvarado was brought to police headquarters for questioning but refused “any further engagement with detectives” and was booked into the Dallas County jail.
He has been charged with murder in the 26-year-old Arlington woman’s death. Bail has been set at $500,000.
Police have not released information about a possible motive.
Lindsey was the second transgender woman slain in Dallas in the last two months.
Muhlaysia Booker, 22, was found fatally shot May 18 on a street in Far East Dallas about a month after she was the victim of a mob attack. After Booker’s death, advocates, lawmakers and allies reignited their call for more protections for trans people.
Days after Booker’s body was found, police announced that they were investigating the possibility of connections to two other cases — a fatal shooting Oct. 21 and an April stabbing in which the victim survived.
Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 33, has been charged in Booker’s death and had her cellphone after her slaying, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Before Alvarado’s arrest Thursday, Dallas police had said Lyles was being considered as a person of interest in Lindsey’s slaying.
Lyles also has been accused in the fatal shootings of Leticia Grant and Kenneth Cichocki.
Grant, 35, was found with a gunshot wound to the head May 22 outside the Chatham Court Apartments in Far North Dallas. She died two days later.
The next night Cichocki, 29, was shot about 4 1/2 miles away in an AutoZone parking lot.
Cichocki had been in contact with Lyles on Facebook Messenger about the sale of Xanax earlier that night, according to an affidavit. He was found with a gunshot wound to the neck minutes after he messaged Lyles saying he was at the parking lot, police said. Cichocki died six days later.
