The shooting happened in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Texas (Picture: KXAS)
A woman was reportedly telling a 911 operator that her marriage had ended recently when her ex-husband fatally shot her.
The former couple were arguing in the parking lot of the Tides at Lewisville apartment complex in Texas on Thursday.
‘At approximately 5.30am, a female called 911 and could be heard arguing with a male subject,’ said police, according to CBS News.
‘The female told dispatchers her marriage to the male had recently ended.
‘A short time later, while the female was on the phone with 911, multiple gunshots could be heard, and the call went silent.’
Witnesses called 911 and told phone operators that a man ‘had shot the female multiple times, then shot himself’.
Responding police officers arrived to find the woman lying in the parking lot ‘with multiple gunshots to her chest, and the male lying in the parking lot with what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot to his head’, cops said.
The woman was rushed to Medical City Lewisville hospital and pronounced dead about an hour after she dialed 911. Her ex-husband was treated but pronounced dead from his injuries at 7.25am.
Their bodies have been taken to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office to determine the cause and and manner of death.
On Friday evening, they were identified as as Rebekah Allen, 34, and Patrick Allen, 33, according to The Cross Timbers Gazette.
Police had responded to the couple’s apartment in the past for domestic violence calls which were mostly for ‘nuisance’. Cops had not observed violent behavior, other than the man slashing the woman’s car tires.
The shooting is under investigation. It was not not immediately known if their divorce was finalized.
The incident took place on the 500 block of East Farm-to-Market Road 3040. Lewisville is about 25 miles north of Dallas.
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‘While the female was on the phone with 911, multiple gunshots could be heard, and the call went silent,’ police said.