A Gainesville woman was arrested Monday in connection to a Christmas Day shooting targeting her ex-boyfriend.
Rici Reshel Coleman
Rici Reshel Coleman, 28, is accused of driving a male accomplice to her ex-boyfriend’s house at 10:54 p.m. on Dec. 25, where the accomplice then shot the man twice, according to a police report. Coleman was identified by police and arrested at about 5:15 p.m. on a charge of attempted murder and two counts of conspiring to commit murder. The accomplice’s name is being withheld due to the ongoing investigation, but he or she has been arrested outside Gainesville on unrelated charges, according to a GPD press release.
Coleman and the man dated for two years. When the relationship became strained, she visited his home multiple times, flattened his car tires and struck him, according to the release.
She was so angry at the man that she complained about him to people hoping to get him arrested or fired from his job, according to the release. She and the accomplice made a plan to kill the man and one of his friends.
On the night of the shooting, the accomplice got out of Coleman’s car and rattled the man’s gate. The man’s dogs began to bark, and the man then came outside.
Using a .38-caliber handgun, the accomplice shot the man twice before Coleman and he drove off, according to the report.
Paramedics took the man to the hospital where he survived the bullet wounds after four surgeries, according to the press release.
Coleman was already in the Alachua County Jail on other charges. Her total bond is set at $590,000.
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