Elba, MN (KROC-AM News) - The charges filed against the Elba woman accused of a shooting Tuesday night indicate the victim remains hospitalized due to bullet fragments in her eye and brain that were causing a brain bleed.

Sixty-four-year-old Ava Leone Kock was arraigned today in Winona County Court on charges of second-degree attempted murder and two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon. Her conditional bail was set at $150,000.

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According to the criminal complaint, Winona County deputies were sent to a residence in the town of about 150 people near Whitewater State Park around 10 p.m. Tuesday concerning a disturbance involving a firearm. A man reported that his wife had been shot at multiple times while sitting in her vehicle in the driveway of their home.

When deputies arrived at the scene, the 34-year-old woman was in an ambulance being treated for her injuries before being transported to St. Marys Hospital. Her husband told investigators he was inside their home playing video games when his wife called just before 10 p.m. and asked him to come outside.

The court document says he found her “hunkered down” behind the dashboard in her vehicle, visibly upset, and asking him to ride with her to the hospital. The husband also noticed several bullet holes in the driver’s side door and windshield.

The criminal complaint says an inspection of the vehicle located a total of seven bullet holes concentrated in the area of the driver’s seat and door. The charges say a deputy shined his flashlight through the holes in the driver’s side window in hopes of determining a possible bullet trajectory, and the light cast a shadow on the wall of the apartment building just north of the crime scene.

The deputy then noticed that the windows of the apartment rented by Kock, which faced the driveway where the targeted vehicle was parked, had several holes in the screens, and one window had seven holes that appeared to be roughly the same size as the bullet holes in the vehicle. That led deputies to speak with Kock, who stated she had heard something but stayed in her apartment. The criminal complaint says she also explained that the holes in the window screens had been there when she moved into the apartment, and she was described as being “very cooperative” with the investigation.

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The following day, the court document says an investigator was informed that Kock had tried to contact the FBI and wanted to speak with law enforcement regarding possible homicides in Elba. That led to a meeting at a local park, during which Kock claimed she had heard the victim and her husband digging graves in the basement of their apartment and that she had to intervene because the justice system hadn’t done anything to stop their criminal behavior.

According to the criminal complaint, Kock then confessed to the shooting, saying she used her son’s .22-caliber rifle and fired seven shots at the victim’s vehicle because “seven is referenced in the Bible several times.” After the shooting, Kock stated she panicked and hid the rifle behind her stove and put the spent shell casings in a potted plant in her living room, where they were discovered when authorities executed a search warrant at her residence.

Kock’s next court appearance is scheduled for August 21.

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