Dallas County medical examiner, gunman in murder-suicide identified - The Dallas Morning News

The 2 radical killed successful a murder-suicide astatine the Dallas County aesculapian examiner’s bureau Tuesday day were identified by authorities Wednesday.

About 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department said Beth Frost, 46, and James Frost, 51, were recovered dormant of evident gunshot wounds successful a second-floor bureau successful the gathering astatine 2355 N. Stemmons Freeway, adjacent Wycliff Avenue, successful the Stemmons Corridor.

A 2nd worker of the aesculapian examiner’s bureau besides was injured successful the shooting, but their information and individuality were not released.

The sheriff’s bureau said the Frosts were joined but estranged.

Careers successful medicine, finance

According to LinkedIn, Beth Frost had been with the bureau arsenic a aesculapian examiner since June 2020, coming from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s bureau successful Phoenix, wherever she worked for 3 years.

She was antecedently the Dallas office’s forensic pathology chap from 2016 to 2017.

She received her doc of osteopathic medicine grade from Kansas City University successful 2012 earlier completing her residency astatine the University of Kentucky, and a fellowship astatine UT Southwestern Medical Center.

James Frost, who went by “Jed,” played hoops for the University of Missouri from 1990 to 1994, and aboriginal was a teacher and hoops manager astatine Odessa High School and Park Hill South High School adjacent Kansas City, according to a 2013 nonfiction from Inside Columbia magazine. He stayed progressive with the athletics astatine the assemblage level astatine Iowa State University and the University of Hawaii.

When helium returned to the mainland truthful Beth could be aesculapian schoolhouse successful Kentucky, helium became an security and fiscal representative, the nonfiction says.

Jed aboriginal started a customized luxury leather container business, FROST, with the bags ranging successful terms from $5,000 to $75,000. It’s unclear whether helium was inactive operating the concern astatine the clip of his death.

‘Conflict of personalities’

Dallas County tribunal records amusement Beth Frost filed for divorcement connected May 2. The mates had been joined since July 2001, according to the filing, and had 2 children unneurotic — a 9-year-old miss and a 5-year-old boy.

The grounds for divorcement elaborate successful the filing said the matrimony had go “insupportable due to the fact that of discord oregon struggle of personalities betwixt Beth and Jed that destroys the morganatic ends of the matrimony narration and prevents immoderate tenable anticipation of reconciliation.”

Though the archetypal filing said Beth wasn’t requesting immoderate protective orders oregon custody of their 2 children, tribunal records amusement an valuation for custody of the children was requested successful aboriginal October.

The filing said Beth believed Jed would participate into agreements for some entree to their children and their estate.

“Beth prays for wide relief,” the filing concludes.

Lawsuit alleges mates owed much than $200,000

According to a suit filed Aug. 2, James Frost Sr. was seeking $228,916 helium said the mates owed him from a bid of loans.

James Frost Sr. said helium gave them the wealth to acquisition property, including 1 location successful 2006 and different successful 2010, on with covering aesculapian and surviving expenses, the suit says.

The suit said the mates had paid conscionable nether $75,000 toward the equilibrium and was “fully aware” James Frost Sr. expected to beryllium repaid successful full. However, the suit goes connected to accidental erstwhile helium demanded the remaining outgo from the couple, they refused.