A couples violent and tumultuous marriage ended Tuesday night in a UT Southwestern parking garage when her estranged husband fatally shot her as she was leaving work, according to police records obtained by The Dallas Morning News.
The victims husband, Ferdinand Smith, has been booked into the Dallas County jail. Smith, 41, is being held on a charge of murder in the death of his wife, Karen Cox Smith, who worked as an executive assistant at UT Southwestern.
He was also being held on felony family violence assault accusing him of attacking his 40-year-old wife in December. It was unclear when the warrant was issued and why he had not been taken into custody on the warrant prior to the murder.
The suspect said he became enraged and shot and killed the complainant with his duty weapon that he uses as a security officer on his job, the records state.
Officers who responded to a report that had been shots fired conducted a floor search of the parking garage before finding Karen Cox Smith lying on the parking lot on the floor. She had been shot multiple times in the head and upper body in what is believed to be the first homicide on the university campus in three decades. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to police records, detectives quickly learned about the December incident and police went to his Duncanville apartment, where he was taken into custody about 3:40 a.m. Wednesday on the family violence warrant in the December case.
Ferdinand Smith worked at Faith Family Academy in Oak Cliff for several years, serving as a security guard at the early childhood center.
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