told FOX 4.<\/a><\/p>\nA witness told police that Simpson held the door open for Keona Zachyua Hampton, 22, at a Five Below store, an arrest affidavit states.<\/p>\n
Simpson allegedly became irritated that Hampton didn\u2019t thank her for holding the door open, triggering an argument. Simpson and her daughter went to their car and drove to PetSmart, which was in the same plaza.<\/p>\n
When Simpson and her daughter entered the PetSmart store, she told employees they were being followed by Hampton.<\/p>\n
Hampton allegedly walked into the store and began arguing with Simpson\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n
Hampton exited the store, but returned a few minutes later, when she allegedly started another argument with Simpson.<\/p>\n
Cecilia Simpson was gunned down outside a PetSmart in Dallas, Texas, on Oct. 7, 2025. Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth\/YouTube<\/p>\n
Keona Hampton was arrested on Tuesday night during a traffic stop and admitted she got into an argument with Simpson, but claimed she only took out the gun when the situation became physical. Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth\/YouTube<\/p>\n
After being asked to leave the store, Hampton allegedly threw a bottle at the vehicle Simpson was driving with her daughter in it.<\/p>\n
According to police, a physical fight then ensued when Hampton took out a handgun and allegedly shot Simpson three times.<\/p>\n
Hampton was arrested on Tuesday night during a traffic stop and admitted she got into an argument with Simpson, but claimed she only took out the gun when the situation became physical.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Hampton was booked into jail on a murder charge.<\/p>\n
Her bail hasn\u2019t been set.<\/p>\n
An ER nurse who saw the incident told FOX 4 her perspective on what happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe shooter was saying, \u2018Come outside. Let\u2019s handle this outside. Let\u2019s fight outside.\u2019 And\u00a0the mom\u00a0and daughter were just telling her to like go away,\u201d she said. \u201cThe mother and daughter tried to get in the car to de-escalate the situation but the lady wasn\u2019t having it. They started to fight and that\u2019s when the lady pulled out her gun and shot her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police investigate the shooting outside the Dallas PetSmart on Oct. 7, 2025. Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth\/YouTube<\/p>\n
The nurse said she performed CPR before paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe daughter was next to the mom the whole time. It\u2019s hard, you know, because the screaming of a child for her mother is never easy and it\u2019s never going to leave my head,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been trying not to cry, but just like, you know, being in high school, my mom was such an important person in my life and she\u2019s the reason I became a nurse. My whole family is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman\u00a0in Texas\u00a0was shot and killed in a PetSmart parking lot after an argument over not saying \u201cthank…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":291276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,5416,27813,149322,3677,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-291275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-murders","12":"tag-petsmart","13":"tag-shootings","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-us-news","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115348506127850628","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}