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

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By Ahiza Garcia

February 19, 2015 4:22 p.m.

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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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Ahiza Garcia Ahiza Garcia is a newswriter based in New York City. Before joining TPM, Ahiza interned and freelanced for Nightline, Fox Sports, and ESPN the Magazine. She holds a B.A. in psychology from Columbia University and an M.S. in digital journalism from Syracuse University. She can be reached at ahiza@talkingpointsmemo.com.

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