Florida built its gun sentencing law to be the toughest in America.
Katherine Kelly just found out it still works.
And now a Florida woman is facing 30 years after she took an Uber to shoot her boyfriend’s side piece.
The Shot Heard Round Port St. John
Katherine Kelly, 25, of Cocoa, Florida had been here before.
Her boyfriend Elijah Baker had cheated on her with the same woman once already.
So when Baker took her Volkswagen at 1:20 in the morning, she knew exactly where he was going.
She tracked the car using GPS.
She called an Uber.
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She texted Baker that she was going to shoot someone.
And when she arrived at that open field on Bamboo Avenue and found Baker parked with Angel Adenau in the passenger seat, she walked up to the window, pulled a pink-and-black Glock 43 out of her purse, and fired one round through the glass.
Adenau took the bullet in her left shoulder.
Baker drove the wounded woman back to her house and left before anyone called 911.
Kelly went home.
Investigators found her at her Cocoa apartment – the same one she shares with Baker – where she admitted the gun was inside.
She Tried Self-Defense and That Didn't Work Either
When deputies first sat Kelly down for questioning, she went with self-defense.
She said headlights came on and the car started moving forward when she approached.
She said she fired to protect herself.
Deputies poked holes in that story fast.
Kelly eventually dropped it and told them the truth.
She didn’t act in self defense.
Instead, she told the officers that she wanted to "make a point."
When asked if she felt guilty, she said she believed in "karma."
Her reasoning?
She told the officers that Adenau "should have known" Baker was in a relationship.
The text messages Kelly sent Baker before the shooting proved premeditation before investigators even needed to argue it.
This includes the direct warning that she was going to shoot someone.
What Karma Actually Looks Like in Brevard County
Here is what "making a point" costs under Florida law.
Kelly faces attempted first-degree premeditated murder with a firearm – and that's where Florida's 10-20-Life law takes over.
Passed in 1999 to end the soft sentencing that let violent gun offenders walk out of courtrooms on probation, the law's math is brutal and intentional: display a gun during a felony, minimum 10 years; fire it, minimum 20 years; injure someone, minimum 25 years to life.
The maximum Kelly is looking at: 30 years in Florida State Prison.
She also faces aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
No bail.
Arraignment November 24.
This wasn't a moment of passion where someone grabbed the nearest object – every step from the GPS track to the Uber ride to the pre-dawn text warning was deliberate, and the arrest affidavit documents all of it.
Prosecutors rarely get a premeditation case this clean.
Florida's 10-20-Life law was built for exactly this scenario: premeditated gun violence that gets repackaged as self-defense the moment the handcuffs come out.
The states that gutted mandatory minimums in the name of "criminal justice reform" produce more stories like this one – just with different endings, because the shooter walks out of a courthouse six months later with time served.
Katherine Kelly is about to find out what it means to live somewhere that didn't go that direction.
Sources:
- Bob D'Angelo, "'Making a Point': Florida Woman Follows Suspected Cheating Boyfriend, Shoots Female in Car," Cox Media Group, October 28, 2026.
- Bonny Chu, "Florida Girlfriend Allegedly Tracks Cheating Boyfriend, Shoots Woman in His Car," Fox News, October 27, 2026.
- Julia Marnin, "Florida Woman Shoots BF's Alleged Mistress to 'Make a Point,' Says She Believes in 'Karma': Deputies," Us Magazine, October 28, 2026.
- "What Is Florida's 10-20-Life Law?" Pumphrey Law Firm, June 25, 2025.
