Dallas police reported that a 26-year-old woman from Texas was shot and killed by her boyfriend after getting an abortion in another state.
In Texas it has been illegal to get an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy since 2021. But since the overturn of Roe v Wade last summer, it is virtually impossible to get an abortion except in cases of medical emergency. Gabriella Gonzalez got an abortion in Colorado.
Her boyfriend, Harold Thompson, 22, disapproved of her decision. On Wednesday, he was in a Dallas parking lot when he tried to put her in a chokehold, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. She had returned from Colorado the night before.
“It is believed that the suspect was the father of the child,” the affidavit said. “The suspect did not want (Gonzalez) to get an abortion.”
Surveillance video from the parking lot shows Gonzalez “shrugs him off”, police said, and the two continue walking. Thompson then pulls out a gun and shoots Gonzalez in the head. She falls to the ground and Thompson shoots her multiple times before running away, the affidavit said.
Thompson was arrested later Wednesday and is being held in the Dallas County jail without bond. Court records did not list an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Gonzalez’s sister was at the scene and heard the shooting, police said. Another witness saw Thompson try to choke Gonzalez but couldn’t call police because she did not have her cell phone.
This was not the first time that Thompson had been guilty of violence against Gonzalez. At the time of the shooting, he had already been charged with assault of a family member, who accused him of choking her in March.
The affidavit from March does not specifically name Gonzalez as the person who was assaulted. But it does say the woman told police that Thompson “beat her up multiple times throughout the entirety of their relationship” and that Thompson told police the woman was pregnant with his child at that time.
The woman “reiterated that she is scared of the suspect because he had made threats to harm her family and her children”, according to the affidavit.
