Merci Mack
Angelo Walker
UPDATE: Angelo Walker, 20, has been booked into the Dallas County Jail, on a charge of murder. Bond is set at $900,000.
Dallas Police have just announced the arrest of a suspect in the June 30 murder of trans woman Merci Mack.
According to a post just now on the police department’s blog, DPD.beat, “During this course of this investigation, it was determined that Angelo Walker was responsible for the murder of Merci Richey. On July 8, 2020, Angelo Walker was arrested by the North Texas Fugitive Task Force.”
Watch for updates as they become available.
UPDATE: Dallas City Council member Carol King Arnold, representing District 4, today (Friday, July 10) issued this statement regarding the murder of Merci Mack and the arrest of a suspect in her death:
“I offer my most sincere condolences to the family of Merci Mack during their season of grief. Merci was a Black transgender female who was shot and killed on June 30.
“The Dallas Police Department and The North Texas Fugitive Task Force announced the arrest of a suspect in her death earlier this week. Details provided by a witness helped in the investigation of her murder. Information provided by the witness is the action that is necessary to address criminal activity.
“The lives of the members of the transgender communities and all communities matter. It is important, in light of the death of Merci Mack that we remain committed to promoting public safety and a quality of life for all in the city of Dallas. I continue to encourage all residents to stay vigilant and report all crimes and suspicious activity to the proper authorities by calling 911.”
— Tammye Nash
I’m so happy he’s off the street Amen.
Omg they need to make it a law for trans to say I was a man before getting into this yes you have to let people know going in because you really don’t know that other person reaction then they say she was gonna put it on Facebook y’all come on know and they need to make a law so they can also stop tryna turn Str8 guys out u really don’t know everyone reaction if they no in to men that’s not into men will flip and lose it my cousin was not into men and they should get the people who didn’t call the police she getting shot they don’t do nothing I fell bad for both sides we need equality all around playing with someone till they snap come on now sad
The “trans panic” defense is reprehensible. What is sad is that anyone thinks it is ok to shoot another person because that person was transgender.
Na not ok to shoot no one I really wish they would get both sides of what happened they sway he she brought it to her self not that she should have been shoot but when you ima show this to everyone they Pantic and flip out wish it would turned out different sad. But I or people want them dean I apologize they cursed me out I was real and so mean but some not rit with this case
Perhaps the problem begins with the fact that some people think there is something wrong with being gay, and they think — wrongly so — that if they are attracted to a woman and that woman turns out to be a trans woman, then someone will think they are gay.
There is nothing wrong with being gay in the first place. But being attracted to a trans woman doesn’t make a man gay anyway, because trans women are women.
I am not saying anything specifically about your cousin’s situation — I don’t know if you are referring to the suspect in the murder of Merci Mack or to some other situation, and I ertainly don’t know the facts of the case.
But men, in general, have to move past the idea that being attracted to a trans woman makes them less manly.