{"id":300002,"date":"2025-10-13T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/300002\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:23:14","slug":"dallas-woman-identified-after-deadly-shooting-outside-petsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/300002\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Woman Identified After Deadly Shooting Outside PetSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas police have identified the woman killed in a shooting outside a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/dallas-police-investigate-fatal-shooting-163002035.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:PetSmart;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PetSmart<\/a> in the Oak Cliff area last week and the suspect accused of pulling the trigger, revealing the incident began as an argument over the words \u201cthank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victim and Suspect Identified<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2025\/10\/police-woman-shot-death-texas-parking-lot-dispute\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:identified;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">identified<\/a> as 41-year-old Cecilia Simpson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say she was shot multiple times Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of the Wheatland Towne Crossing shopping center on West Wheatland Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect, 22-year-old Keona Hampton, was arrested later that evening and charged with murder. She remains held in the Dallas County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Dispute Over \u201cThank You\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to police, the confrontation began after Simpson reportedly held the door open for Hampton while leaving a <strong>Five Below<\/strong> store and became upset when Hampton did not say \u201cthank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The dispute spilled into a nearby <strong>PetSmart<\/strong>, where Simpson told employees Hampton was following her. Staff asked both women to leave after their argument escalated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the parking lot, police say Hampton threw a drink bottle at Simpson\u2019s vehicle. When Simpson approached her, the two began fighting. Witnesses said Simpson struck Hampton several times while telling her to leave before Hampton drew a handgun and opened fire, striking Simpson three times.<\/p>\n<p>Arrest and Confession<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cell phone and surveillance video captured the moments leading up to the shooting and showed Hampton walking away holding a handgun, according to investigators.<br \/>Police located her around 7:45 p.m. the same day. During questioning, Hampton admitted she argued with Simpson and fired her weapon but claimed she was \u201cjust trying to get [Simpson] away from her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police Continue Investigation<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas police say the investigation remains ongoing as detectives review footage from multiple nearby businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting occurred near Interstate 20 in the <strong>Wheatland Towne Crossing<\/strong> shopping center, where several stores closed temporarily following the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas police have identified the woman killed in a shooting outside a PetSmart in the Oak Cliff area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":300003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,151221,1596,14842,152716,149322,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-300002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cecilia-simpson","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-police","12":"tag-keona-hampton","13":"tag-petsmart","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-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115367077972223431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300002","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=300002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}