Arlington Police on Friday, Oct. 17, announced that they have issued a warrant for 25-year-old Arthur Morris Jr., charging him murder in connection with the Sept. 30, 2021, shooting death of transgender woman Kier Laprice Solomon.

Police said Morris is already in the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, serving a seven-year prison sentence for an unrelated aggravated robbery conviction.

Solomon, who was 21 at the time of her death, was also known as Kiér Laprí Kartier. She was found in her car, parked at an apartment complex in the 1100 block of Stonetrail Road in North Arlington. According to police reports at the time, Solomon “was transported to a local hospital where she was later pronounced deceased.”

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office listed her cause of

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