It may have just been a matter of time. But quite a bit if it was.

Patricia Ruth Holt, 57, stands accused of one count of murder in the first degree , according to the Dallas County Sheriff's Office.

In the charged incident, Carl Joseph Donaldson, 47, was shot in the head and killed in late July. The victim has since been identified as Holt's then-manager at Hutchins Trucking Yard.

Nearly four decades earlier, Holt was charged with attempted murder.

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On Sept. 25, 1986, when she was an 18-year-old high school senior living in Red Hook, a port-adjacent neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, the defendant came to school wielding a l

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