DALLAS, Texas — Around 12:02 AM Sunday, Dallas police officers responded to a shooting call at 400 S. Zang Boulevard, the Bank of America tower in Oak Cliff.
The 911 caller, Suspect David Thompson, 34, stated that he had just shot his wife at his work place because she tried to kill him.
Thompson is a licensed commissioned security officer. The victim, his wife, was shot and pronounced deceased by Dallas Fire Rescue in the lobby of the Bank of America Tower.
From NBC-DFW: Investigators said the woman [went] to confront him about alleged marriage infidelity. The two began to have a physical struggle, and Thompson later told police he believed his wife was reaching for his pistol, so he shot her in self defense, according to the arrest affidavit.
Thompson was later arrested and charged with murder. There was no weapon found on the victim.
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Bank of America Plaza is a 72-story, 921 ft. late-modernist skyscraper located in the Main Street District of downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the tallest skyscraper in the city, the 3rd tallest in Texas and the 22nd tallest in the United States. It contains 1,900,000 sq ft of office space.
The building was designed by JPJ Architects and developed by Bramalea LTD of Toronto. The original owner was a joint venture arrangement including Prudential Insurance, Bramalea, LTD and First National Bank of Dallas under parent company InterFirst Corporation. Construction commenced in 1983 and the tower was completed in 1985.
