A Texas Woman Was Fatally Shot By A Boyfriend Angry She Had An Abortion, Police Say

DALLAS (AP) — A person offended that his girlfriend had an abortion in one other state fatally shot the 26-year-old lady, Dallas police stated.

He was jailed on a homicide cost as of Friday.

Texas banned abortions after roughly six weeks of being pregnant in September 2021. However almost all abortions have been halted in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned final summer time, besides in circumstances of medical emergency.

Gabriella Gonzalez was along with her boyfriend, 22-year-old Harold Thompson, in a Dallas parking zone Wednesday when he tried to place her in a chokehold, based on an arrest warrant affidavit. She had returned from Colorado the night time earlier than.

“It's believed that the suspect was the daddy of the kid,” the affidavit stated. “The suspect didn't need (Gonzalez) to get an abortion.”

Surveillance video from the parking zone reveals Gonzalez “shrugs him off,” police stated, and the 2 proceed strolling. Thompson then pulls out a gun and shoots Gonzalez within the head. She falls to the bottom and Thompson shoots her a number of instances earlier than working away, the affidavit stated.

Thompson was arrested later Wednesday and is being held within the Dallas County Jail with out bond. Court docket information didn't checklist an lawyer who may converse on his behalf.

Gonzalez’s sister was on the scene and heard the capturing, police stated. One other witness noticed Thompson attempt to choke Gonzalez however couldn’t name police as a result of she didn't have her mobile phone.

On the time of the capturing, Thompson had been charged with assault of a member of the family, who accused him of choking her in March.

The affidavit from March doesn't particularly title Gonzalez as the one that was assaulted. But it surely does say the lady advised police that Thompson “beat her up a number of instances all through the whole lot of their relationship” and that Thompson advised police the lady was pregnant together with his youngster at the moment.

The girl “reiterated that she is frightened of the suspect as a result of he had made threats to hurt her household and her youngsters,” based on the affidavit.