Katherine Dale Kelly

Introduction

Katherine Dale Kelly is a 24-year-old woman from Cocoa, Florida, charged with four felonies — attempted first-degree premeditated murder with a firearm chief among them — after, deputies say, she tracked her boyfriend’s location by phone, rode an Uber to catch him, and fired a single shot through the passenger window of her own Volkswagen, wounding the woman riding with him, Angel Adenau, in the shoulder. The early-morning October 24, 2026, shooting in a darkened field in Port St. John drew national coverage for both its method and its stated motive: Kelly told investigators she fired to “make a point” over her boyfriend’s cheating .

Background Information

Kelly shared a Cocoa apartment — on Clearlake Road, per the arrest affidavit — with her boyfriend, Elijah Baker. Their relationship was already strained by an earlier affair with the same woman: in text messages sent the night of the shooting, Kelly accused him of cheating “just like last time,” investigators wrote. The couple’s location sharing ran both ways, letting each watch the other move around Brevard County in real time — a feature that would shape every step of what happened next. The weapon was hers: a Glock 43 pistol with a pink slide and black lower half .

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Charged with attempted premeditated murder — allegations from a sworn affidavit, not tested at trial. Brevard County Clerk of Court records show four felony counts in case 05-2026-CF-055828: attempted first-degree premeditated murder with a firearm, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, shooting a deadly missile into an occupied vehicle, and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Kelly acknowledged firing into the car; she first called it self-defense, then told investigators she wanted to “make a point.” She is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty .

According to the arrest affidavit filed by BCSO Agent Dylan Weber, the night began around 1 a.m. Saturday when Baker left their apartment in Kelly’s gray 2016 Volkswagen Passat — permitted, in his account; taken without permission, in hers — and texted another woman to “hang out,” picking her up about 1:20 a.m. and driving to a friend’s home near Bamboo Avenue in Port St. John, where he backed the car into an open field. Kelly’s suspicion grew in the text thread: from 1:37 a.m. she accused him of cheating “just like last time,” sent a screenshot of his location plotted near the other woman’s home, and warned, in investigators’ transcription, “I waws finna shoot sum istg” — which the affidavit reads as a threat to shoot someone .

Kelly ordered an Uber to Port St. John, the affidavit states, and brought the pink-and-black Glock 43 in her purse. Baker, watching her location approach from their apartment, drove around Port St. John to evade her; she stopped sharing hers. He finally backed into the field by his friend’s house and turned the engine off. The two accounts converge on what came next: Kelly walked around the front of the car toward the passenger side — where Adenau sat — and fired one round through the window, shattering it and striking Adenau in the left shoulder. Kelly told investigators the headlights came on and the car began moving forward as she approached, and that she fired believing her boyfriend was driving .

Baker drove the wounded woman back to her Monroe Avenue home in Cocoa, where they woke the residents; he left before anyone called 911, then returned to collect Kelly and take her to their apartment. Deputies were dispatched at about 2:34 a.m., and Brevard County Fire Rescue took Adenau to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne; authorities did not say how badly she was wounded. Prior traffic stops had linked the Passat to Baker, and canvassing his Clearlake Road complex, deputies found it with its front passenger window shattered and blood on the center console. Kelly answered the door and, while being detained, acknowledged shooting into the vehicle and said the gun was inside. With her consent, deputies searched the apartment — recovering the pink-and-black Glock from her purse — and the field near the 6500 block of Bamboo Avenue, where they documented tire impressions and a single 9mm shell casing .

In a recorded custodial interview after waiving her rights, Kelly first said she fired in self-defense as the car moved toward her, then said she wanted to “make a point” because she believed Baker was cheating again; asked whether she felt guilty about shooting the woman, investigators wrote, she said she believed in “karma” because the woman should have known he had a girlfriend. She had permanently deleted her texts with Baker from her own phone — conduct the affidavit says “may suggest that she was aware that her statements were incriminating” — while Baker’s phone preserved the thread, including his 4:06 a.m. message: “I love you in here any step of the way im sorry this even happened.” In the probable cause summary, Weber wrote that Kelly took “deliberate and purposeful steps” to track the pair, traveled armed, warned by text that she would shoot someone, and walked to the side of the car where she suspected a woman sat — actions he tied to a premeditated design to kill .

Public Reaction and Consequences

The shooting rippled from Space Coast newsrooms to national coverage within days: Space Coast Daily detailed the affidavit’s charges, Hearst television stations in Florida syndicated the deputies’ account, and the New York Post carried the story nationally under a headline built from its most striking details — an Uber, a pink Glock, a shot fired to “make a point.” None of the three principals has spoken publicly: Kelly, declared indigent at her first appearance, is represented by the Public Defender’s Office; the wounded woman’s account exists as a sworn hospital-room statement to investigators; and Baker, who has not been charged, gave his own recorded statement to deputies rather than to reporters .

Current Status

Kelly was arrested on a warrant served October 24, 2026, and made her initial appearance the next morning, where she was declared indigent and the Office of the Public Defender was appointed. An order setting bond was entered, though the amount is not listed on the public docket; the case is assigned to Circuit Judge Michelle Naberhaus, with arraignment scheduled for November 24. The four charges — including attempted first-degree murder, which The Post notes carries a maximum sentence of 30 years — are allegations in a sworn law-enforcement affidavit and have not been tested in court; Kelly is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty .

Impact on Their Career/Life

If convicted as charged, Kelly faces a sentencing structure built to be punishing: attempted first-degree murder carries up to 30 years, and under Florida’s 10-20-Life statute, discharging a gun during an attempted murder in a way that causes great bodily harm adds a mandatory minimum of 25 years upon conviction. At 24, with bond set but its amount absent from the public docket and arraignment ahead in November, the affidavit’s own language — “deliberate and purposeful steps,” a premeditated design to kill — now frames the record she will answer in court, beginning with the texts she deleted and the ones she could not .

Sources

“Furious Florida girlfriend tracks cheating beau to shoot his other woman and ‘make a point’: cops” — New York Post: source
“Katherine Dale Kelly, 24, Charged With Attempted First-Degree Murder After Shooting in Port St. John” — Space Coast Daily: source
“Cocoa Woman Charged With Attempted Murder After Deputies Say She Tracked Boyfriend, Shot Woman in Passenger Seat” — The Space Coast Rocket: source
“Brevard County Uber ride leads to shooting, deputies say” — WPBF: source
“Florida woman fired into car window after suspecting boyfriend cheating” — Gulf Coast News Now: source