Texas homicide suspect became obsessed with coworker, murdered her over her 'long' work breaks, police say

Texas authorities accidental that a antheral suspected of a recent homicide was obsessed with the coworker helium killed, and claimed that her "long breaks" was a main crushed for the murder.

Travis Merrill, 51, was arrested aft helium allegedly changeable and killed his coworker Tamhara Collazo astatine her table connected Thursday. The 2 some worked astatine an Allegiance Trucks bureau in Lewisville, which is astir 30 miles northbound of Dallas.

Police accidental that Merrill opened occurrence connected Thursday day aft the unfortunate came backmost from a luncheon break. She was rushed to a hospital, but died from her injuries.

"As she re-entered aft lunch, helium followed her wrong to her cubicle and ‘ambushed’ her, firing the weapon respective times," an affidavit obtained by FOX 4 Dallas describes.

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Travis Merrill, 51, was arrested aft helium reportedly changeable his coworker and killed her. (FOX 4 Dallas / Denton County Jail)

The tribunal papers revealed that Merrill admitted to being "obsessed" with the unfortunate and was preoccupied with the breaks she took astatine work. The fishy said that helium meticulously kept way of what days Merrill took breaks and however lengthy they were.

"[Merrill said he] was obsessed with Collazo and began getting ever 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," the papers read.

Collazo got upwind of Merrill's concerning behaviour and reported him to the company's quality resources department. The fishy was ordered to question counseling earlier helium returned to work.

Merrill besides told constabulary that Collazo avoided him astatine enactment aft she had reported him, which angered him. He past bought firearms, and adjacent told constabulary that helium had brought the guns to enactment connected respective occasions.

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Merrill made a fig of confessions to constabulary aft the murder, according to an affidavit. (Denton County Jail via FOX 4 Dallas)

Merrill claimed that the unfortunate had "caused him pain, and helium wanted her to consciousness pain, truthful helium intentionally planned to sprout her astatine enactment with everyone there," per FOX 4. 

Allegiance Trucks released a connection to FOX 4 expressing its devastation implicit the incident, and noted that its Lewisville bureau is closed successful the aftermath of the shooting.

"The institution is providing enactment to the victim's household and the remainder of our employees who, thankfully, were unharmed, and we person closed our Lewisville bureau indefinitely. We are besides moving intimately with instrumentality enforcement during their ongoing investigation," Allegiance Trucks said. 

"We inquire for the community's enactment arsenic our institution has unluckily joined the increasing nationalist assemblage of workplaces affected by weapon violence."

The shooting took spot astatine an Allegiance Trucks successful Lewisville, Texas connected Thursday. (FOX 4 Dallas)

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Fox News Digital reached retired to the Lewisville Police Department and Allegiance Trucks for further information.