Man ‘obsessed with co-worker shot her dead because she took long lunch breaks’

A antheral allegedly killed his co-worker helium was obsessed with due to the fact that she took agelong luncheon breaks and would not wage attraction to him.

Travis Lee Merrill, 51, is accused of shooting dormant Tamhara Collazo astatine the Allegiance Trucking bureau gathering connected Thursday morning.

Cops responded to a aggregate calls of an ‘active shooter’ astatine the gathering connected the 1800 artifact of Lakeway Drive successful Denton County, Texas, and recovered Merrill lasting ‘with his hands already raised successful the air’, according to the Lewisville Police Department.

When asked helium if helium was the shooter, Merrill said, ‘Yes,’ and pointed to his guns, constabulary said. He was arrested without incident.

Inside the business, Collazo was discovered nether the table successful her cubicle with a gunshot coiled successful her chest, 2 connected her limb and 1 connected her leg.

She was rushed to Medical City Lewisville hospital, wherever she was pronounced dead.

Merrill allegedly admitted to shooting Collazo, who noticed helium was watching her for months and reported him to the company. Merrill said helium was suspended and had to talk with a counsellor earlier being allowed back, and that she started avoiding him.

‘He was obsessed with Collazo and began getting each progressively aggravated by her taking what helium considered to beryllium unauthorized agelong breaks during enactment hours arsenic good arsenic not paying immoderate attraction to him,’ states a probable origin affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.

Merrill told instrumentality enforcement officials that she ‘had caused him pain, and helium wanted her to consciousness pain, truthful helium intentionally planned to sprout her astatine enactment with everyone there’.

He said helium followed Collazo erstwhile she near for her luncheon interruption to her car and ‘readied his guns’, past trailed her backmost to her cubicle wherever helium ‘ambushed her’, according to the affidavit.

Merrill allegedly confessed to practicing shooting manus motions astatine location and bringing firearms to the bureau connected 2 different instances, including the time earlier the shooting which ‘didn’t consciousness similar the close time’.

He has been charged with 1 number of first-degree murder and is incarcerated astatine the Denton County Jail with his enslaved acceptable astatine $10million.

Allegiance Trucking stated that different employees and Collazo’s household were ‘thankfully’ unharmed and that the bureau has been shuttered until further notice.

‘We inquire for the community’s enactment arsenic our institution has unluckily joined the increasing nationalist assemblage of workplaces affected by weapon violence,’ stated the company, according to KDFW.

Collazo was murdered 2 months aft a slope worker astatine Wells Fargo’s firm bureau successful Tempe, Arizona, was found dormant astatine her cubicle four days aft she unexpectedly died.

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