Court documents provide chilling new details in Texas workplace shooting that ended with a woman dead and her male co-worker charged with murder.
He wanted her to feel pain, so he intentionally planned to shoot her at work with everyone there,’ according to the affidavit.Officers responded quickly and on foot because the police department’s temporary building shares a parking lot with the trucking accessory company.Sign up for NBC DFW's News Headlines newsletter.
The affidavit did not mention specific dates or a timeline of events, but at one point, Collazo reported Merrill’s behavior to the administration.Upon returning to his job, Merrill told police he felt like his colleagues probably considered him ‘a psychopath.’ When Collazo began intentionally avoiding him, he said it fueled his anger, so he started to purchase guns.
Merrill allegedly went on to say his co-worker ‘had caused him pain, and he wanted her to feel pain, so he intentionally planned to shoot her at work with everyone there,’ according to the affidavit. Merrill said he contemplated taking action on at least two occasions, including driving to work on his day off and sitting in the parking lot.
Merrill allegedly admitted to following Collazo out to the parking on her lunch break last Thursday, ‘readied his guns,’ waited, and followed the unsuspecting woman to her cubicle, “ambushing her” in front of horrified co-workers.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 'acts of violence' are the third leading cause of deadly work injuries in the U.S.
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