A 57-year-old Texas truck driver with a violent past is accused of shooting her boss in the head during a workplace confrontation — nearly 40 years after she was charged with attempted murder in a high school gun incident.
According to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, Patricia Ruth Holt has been charged with first-degree murder in the late July killing of 47-year-old Carl Joseph Donaldson, her manager at Hutchins Trucking Yard.
Authorities say the deadly encounter came after a day of escalating tensions. Earlier in Waco, Holt allegedly clashed with a customer. Donaldson reportedly told her to apologize or return the truck empty. When she came back to the Hutchins yard, Donaldson’s widow says Holt drove a tractor-trailer in circles before aiming it at her husband. The Purple Heart recipient tried to defuse the situation by jumping on the truck — but moments later, a gunshot rang out.
“I turned around and looked and I see my husband flying through the air,” his widow told reporters.
Holt allegedly fled, leading deputies on a slow-speed chase before spike strips forced her to stop. She then barricaded herself inside the truck for nearly four hours before surrendering. Investigators say she admitted she had been “targeting” Donaldson for months and had considered suicide or “suicide by cop.”
Holt’s criminal history stretches back to 1986, when she was an 18-year-old high school senior in Brooklyn. Armed with a loaded 12-gauge shotgun, she stormed her school looking for a teacher who had disciplined her. The teacher wasn’t there, and other staff tackled and disarmed her before anyone was hurt. Initially charged with attempted murder, she pleaded guilty to attempted assault and got five years’ probation.
Holt is currently being held in Dallas County Jail on $1 million bail.
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