They were ‘set up’ by ex-girlfriend before Northland shooting, KC couple says
A 21-year-old woman is charged with shooting her ex-boyfriend in Kansas City’s Northland. Investigators say she and her mother tracked him and his girlfriend, then her mother smashed the girlfriend’s Mercedes with a bat before the shooting.
The Clay County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday charged Jolie S. Koop of Kansas City, North, with one count of first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon, and two counts of armed criminal action.
Koop was being held in the Clay County Detention Center. Prosecutors have requested a $150,000 bond, contending she’s a risk to public safety and/or a flight risk. She appeared in Clay County Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon for an arraignment hearing. A not guilty plea was entered on her behalf. A bond hearing is set for 9 a.m. Tuesday..
According to court documents, officers responded to a reported shooting shortly after 6:20 p.m. Monday near Northeast Barry Road and North Indiana Avenue. There, they found a victim, who said she and her boyfriend had been at the Clay County Courthouse to get an order of protection against his ex-girlfriend, Koop.
After leaving, the girlfriend received a call from an unknown woman who said her Mercedes was being towed from her apartment’s parking lot.
While being questioned by police, the woman told police she felt she was being “set up,” so she and her boyfriend decided to drive the car to a relative’s house until it could be licensed, according to court documents.
The two headed out, with the woman driving the Mercedes and her boyfriend driving his Cadillac. The woman then noticed that Koop was following behind her in a Buick near Northeast 86th Street and North Indiana.
Meanwhile, the boyfriend called his father, saying they were being followed by “his crazy ex-girlfriend and possibly her mother,” according to court documents. He told his father about the call saying the Mercedes was being towed. His father told him to call 911.
Before the shooting, his girlfriend came to a stop sign, and her car stalled. She told detectives that Koop and her mother got out of the Buick and approached the Mercedes, according to court documents. Koop’s mother, then, allegedly struck the car with a bat, breaking the rear window. Meanwhile, Koop was armed with a gun.
When the woman’s boyfriend arrived, he got out of the Cadillac armed with a knife and approached Koop, who allegedly shot him in the chest, according to court documents. He fell to the ground and Koop and her mother got back in the Buick and drove off.
Minutes after telling his son to call 911, the father received a call saying his son had been shot at the McDonald’s. He went to the scene and drove his son to a fire station at 8100 North Oak Trafficway.
Surveillance video from a nearby McDonald’s and Dutch Bros Coffee appeared to corroborate parts of the account, showing a Buick pull up behind the Mercedes and a woman firing at a man who approached.
When questioned by detectives, Koop allegedly told detectives they staked out the Mercedes, placed a fake tow call to lure the couple out, and then followed them until the car stalled.
Koop also allegedly told detectives she shot her ex-boyfriend in the chest after he arrived and approached her with a knife, according to court documents.
Koop said she and her mother then got back into the Buick and left. Koop dropped her mother off at her apartment and then drove to a nearby park, where police arrested her.
Detectives noted in court documents that this was the second incident where Koop used a gun against her ex-boyfriend.
Clay County prosecutors previously had charged Koop in November with third-degree domestic assault and unlawful use of a weapon. In that case, Koop allegedly attacked her ex-boyfriend as he was trying to leave with his property.
