• Police arrested Harold Thompson on suspicion of killing Gabriella Gonzalez in a confrontation in Dallas.
• She had traveled to Colorado for an abortion, which police stated her boyfriend objected to.
• Texas has a number of the strictest abortion legal guidelines within the nation.

A Texas man is suspected of capturing and killing his girlfriend after he discovered she went to get an abortion in one other state, police stated.

Police arrested Harold Thompson, 22, on suspicion of killing 26-year-old Gabriella Gonzalez in a confrontation in a Dallas car parking zone on Wednesday, stated police, after discovering she had returned from getting an abortion in Colorado the evening earlier than, per the Related Press.

“It’s believed that the suspect was the daddy of the kid,” the affidavit stated, per AP. The suspect didn’t need Gonzalez to get an abortion, it stated.

Surveillance footage exhibits Thompson making an attempt to place Gonzalez in a chokehold within the car parking zone, which she shrugs off, police stated. 

Thompson then pulled out a gun, shot Gonzalez within the head, after which shot her a number of instances after she fell to the bottom, in keeping with the affidavit seen by AP.

Texas has a number of the strictest abortion legal guidelines within the nation.

The state had already successfully banned abortions after roughly six weeks of being pregnant in 2021. Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, abortion was made unlawful most often besides in instances of a medical emergency.

After many states launched abortion restrictions post-Roe, many ladies have chosen to cross state traces to entry them.

Thompson was later arrested and is being held within the Dallas County Jail on a homicide cost, AP reported.

The sufferer’s sister was on the scene and heard the capturing, and one other witness noticed Thompson attempt to choke Gonzalez however did not have her cellphone, so she couldn’t name the police, police stated.

Thompson had in March been charged with the assault of a member of the family, who accused him of choking her and stated he “beat her up a number of instances all through everything of their relationship.”

The March affidavit doesn’t identify Gonzalez because the sufferer, however Thompson informed police that the lady who accused him of assault was pregnant together with his youngster then.

She additionally “reiterated that she is frightened of the suspect as a result of he had threatened to hurt her household and her youngsters,” per the affidavit, AP reported.