DALLAS — A 26-year-old lady from Texas was shot and killed by her boyfriend after getting an abortion in one other state, 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. But almost all abortions have been halted in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned final summer season, besides in circumstances of medical emergency.

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

“It is believed that the suspect was the father of the child,” the affidavit stated. “The suspect did not want (Gonzalez) to get an abortion.”

Surveillance video from the car 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 occasions earlier than operating away, the affidavit stated.

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

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

At 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 who was assaulted. But it does say the lady informed police that Thompson “beat her up multiple times throughout the entirety of their relationship” and that Thompson informed police the lady was pregnant together with his little one at the moment.

The lady “reiterated that she is scared of the suspect because he had made threats to harm her family and her children,” in line with the affidavit.

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