A Mississippi woman followed her ex-boyfriend and his new partner before shooting him in the chest while the couple sat inside a car on Wednesday, police say.
Kiajuana Levy is alleged to have followed her ex, Yolan Lee, and his girlfriend, Tikia Striblen, for 10 miles from Clinton to Jackson.
Levy then fired a shot into Lee's gray Dodge Dart around 4:30 p.m. on Highway 80 near Whiting Road, Jackson Police Officer Sam Brown told WJTV.
Lee was hit in the chest and transported to a local hospital. His condition is not known.
The investigation is continuing. Newsweek has contacted Jackson Police Department for comment.
On the same day in Illinois, a man was charged with murder after the body of his ex-wife was found in a parked car on Valentine's Day.
Jose Alvarado-Ramirez, 31, had called police in Waukegan to report that his former wife was unresponsive on the morning of February 14.
Officers found a woman's body in a parked white sedan, Waukegan Police Commander Edgar Navarro told the Lake and McHenry County Scanner.
The woman, who was later identified as Alvarado-Ramirez's former wife, was pronounced dead at the scene on the 500 block of Lakehurst Road.
The victim, named as 29-year-old Meztli Galindo by NBC Chicago, suffered multiple sharp force injuries, according to an autopsy and police reports.
Her cause of death will be released at a later date by the Lake County coroner's office.
Police are characterizing her death as related to domestic violence, reported the Chicago Tribune. Alvarado-Ramirez has been charged with first-degree murder.
Earlier this month, an Alabama man was accused of cutting his wife's throat with a circular saw in a brutal attack after a dinner date.
Kyle Young Waters, 35, was arrested after the incident at his Wedowee home on February 3.
He has been charged with attempted murder and domestic violence, according to the Randolph County Sheriff's Office.
Court documents revealed that the attack took place after Waters and his wife returned home from dinner together that evening.
The documents state that Waters pushed his wife out of a loft and she fell 8 feet, landing on a cement floor. He then allegedly jumped on her and repeatedly hit her head on the floor.
He is said to have stabbed her with shards of broken glass as she attempted to fight back. When the woman managed to take the shards from him, the documents say Waters reached for a Ryobi circular saw.
Police said he placed the saw's blade at her neck and cut her throat. Waters reportedly had a number of injuries to his hands when he was taken into custody.
His wife was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries. She underwent surgery and is expected to recover.
On February 8, a 74-year-old woman in Arizona was arrested after police said she hit her sleeping boyfriend on the head with a hammer.
Marilyn Ann Kepler told Bullhead City police she was upset with her boyfriend, also 74, because he had left the television on overnight and she could not sleep. She is charged with aggravated assault per domestic violence.
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