Dallas.- A man who did not want his girlfriend to have an abortion shot her to death in a Dallas parking lot, police said. The man is in jail on murder charges.
In September 2021, Texas banned abortions after about six weeks of gestation, but almost all abortions have stopped since the Roe v. Wade ruling was overturned last summer, except in cases of medical emergency.
Gabriella Gonzalez, 26, was with her boyfriend, Harold Thompson, 22, Wednesday when he tried to strangle her, according to an affidavit accompanying the warrant. González had returned the night before from Colorado, where she had gone to get the abortion.
“It is believed that the suspect was the father of the child,” the affidavit reads. “The suspect did not want (González) to have an abortion.”
Surveillance video from the parking lot shows González “getting off his back,” the agents said, and the two continue walking. Thompson then pulls out a pistol and shoots González in the head. She falls to the ground and he shoots her multiple times before running away, according to the affidavit.
The man was arrested later Wednesday and is being held at the Dallas County Jail without bail. Court records do not indicate an attorney who can speak on his behalf.
The woman’s sister was at the scene and heard the shots. Another witness saw Thompson try to strangle González, but he couldn’t call police because he didn’t have his phone number.
At the time of the attack, Thompson had been charged with assault on a family member, who accused him of trying to strangle her in March.
The March affidavit does not specifically name Gonzalez as the person assaulted, but it does say that the woman told police that Thompson “hit her multiple times throughout their relationship” and that he mentioned to police that she was pregnant with him. him at that time.
