Reports: Texas Woman Shot Dead Just Three Hours After Asking Cops For Help

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A man in Houston on Wednesday allegedly shot and killed a woman who’d filed a harassment complaint against him with the police just three hours earlier, television station KTRK reported.

Police said the man then turned the gun on himself, according to the station. He was hospitalized but was not expected to survive, KTRK reported.

The shooting reportedly occurred at an apartment complex where the woman worked, according to the television station. Police didn’t identify either the woman or her killer, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Police told KTRK that just three hours before the shooting, the woman had filed a police report against the man, accusing him of harassment. She alleged that he had called her approximately 140 times in a day.

According to police, the woman had also filed a report about the man last month. She told police that the man, whom she’d started dating in 2007, was unstable and wouldn’t stop calling her from a private number, KTRK reported. She had been separated from the man and living in her own apartment at the time of the shooting, according to the station.

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  1. Another NRA wet dream.

  2. Another Wednesday murder-almost suicide.

    In addition to the result, can we get the info down the road how the alleged killer came into possession of the weapon? Was it stolen? Did he get it from a garage sale, a gun runner, a relative or companion straw seller with a clean record, a licensed (or unlicensed) gun dealer- legit like Cabela’s or corrupt, a classified ad, the internet? In short, was it obtained in the secondary sale market or by original purchase?

    These are significant questions on which we must have data before we can determine which gun laws are most effective and most likely to reduce the carnage. If it turns out, for example, that 80 to 90% of guns used in crimes were distributed by corrupt gun dealers, on the secondary market or stolen, then an engineering approach is needed to address the weapon, not just original buyers.

  3. Obviously a responsible gun owner turned to the dark side by an evil enchantress.

  4. Now was he a bad guy with a gun who becaome a good guy with a gun when he blew his own brains out or was he an all-around bad guy with a gun?

    And where was the NRA to protect her?

  5. A Texan and she didn’t carry her own gun? As the NRA-approved t-shirt reads, “Don’t call 911, call Smith and Wesson”.

    Snark aside, this is a sad American tragedy.

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