Transgender Woman Found Dead In White Rock Creek: Police

DALLAS, TX — Police say the body recovered Saturday from White Rock Creek belongs to an unidentified transgender female, the second trans woman to die unexpectedly in Dallas this week.

The woman's body was seen floating in the creek around 7:26 p.m. in the 6900 block of Merriman Parkway.

The woman's badly decomposed body was removed from the water and found to be wearing a black shirt and hospital scrub-type pants, Deputy Chief Thomas Castro said in a press conference Tuesday.

The woman had no tattoos or other identifying marks, but did show some signs of injury, Castro said.

The death is being treated as unexplained, police said.

Police said they cannot comment on the woman's cause of death until the Dallas County Medical Examiner makes a ruling.

The woman is described as standing 5-foot-3 and weighing around 130 pounds.

Another transgender woman was murdered in Dallas on May 9. Carla Patricia Flores-Pavon, 26, died Wednesday around 4:00 p.m. after an unidentified man was seen leaving her apartment in the 6100 block of LBJ Expressway.

Police say they do not believe the deaths are related as of writing.

Other members of the Dallas LGBT community, meanwhile, remain shaken after a string of attacks occurred in the city's Oak Lawn region.

Anyone with information about this death is asked to call detective Chaney at 214-671-3650.

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