KINGSTON, N.Y. — Thirty-nine years after attempting to gun down her high school English teacher, a former Red Hook resident faces a murder charge in Texas for allegedly shooting her boss. Patricia …
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KINGSTON, N.Y. — Thirty-nine years after attempting to gun down her high school English teacher, a former Red Hook resident faces a murder charge in Texas for allegedly shooting her boss.
Patricia Ruth Holt, 57, was arrested on July 24 in Hutchins, Texas, and charged with first-degree murder. She is being held in the Dallas County Jail on $1 million bail.
According to an arrest warrant provided by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, Holt was working as an over-the-road truck driver for Hutchins Trucking Yard when she shot the business’s 47-year-old manager, Carl Joseph Donaldson, in the head.
Police said after shooting Donaldson, Holt threatened to shoot others at the scene who were filming the incident. According to the warrant, she left the trucking yard and led authorities on a slow-speed pursuit before police deployed spike strips to stop the tractor-trailer. She then barricaded herself inside the truck’s cab for nearly four hours.
Although she ultimately surrendered peacefully, according to police documents, while inside the truck cab, Holt allegedly told police she planned to turn the gun on herself or “attempt suicide by cop,” by forcing police to shoot her. Police said that at the time of her arrest, Holt had a handgun that had one round in the chamber and a loaded magazine.
She also allegedly told police that she had been planning to shoot Donaldson “for months,” that “they have been f—ing with her for too long,” and that she had been waiting for two years to get paid.