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Arlington police have arrested a man in the 2021 death of a transgender woman at an apartment complex, according to a news release.

Arthur Morris Jr., 25, is charged with one count of murder in the September 2021 death of 21-year-old Kier Solomon, police said.

Morris is currently serving a 7-year prison sentence in an unrelated aggravated robbery case.

Officers initially responded to the apartment complex in the 1100 block of Stonetrail Road on the night of Sept. 30, 2021, and found Solomon slumped over in the seat of a parked, running car, police said.

Police recovered Solomon’s cellphone and found that she had been messaging someone via an app about meeting at the location, according to the statement.

Investigators determined that the phone number Solomon was messaging was a number generated by the app, police said.

Two weeks prior, at the same location, a different victim was robbed at gunpoint after messaging someone on the same app, police said. The victim told investigators Morris was the suspect in that case.

Last month, search warrants for the app revealed that an email address and cellphone number connected to Morris had been used in both cases, according to the statement.

Records for that number placed Morris at the crime scene before, during and after Solomon’s murder, police said.

Morris has also been charged with another count of aggravated robbery in connection to the other case, according to the statement. He will be returned to Tarrant County for arraignment on the new charges.