A woman followed her former boyfriend and his new girlfriend before gunfire outside a Northland restaurant, police say.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City woman is accused of following her former boyfriend and his new girlfriend to a McDonald’s on Monday night, damaging the girlfriend’s Mercedes with a bat and shooting the man in the chest, police said.

Jolie S. Koop, 21, faces charges of first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action in Clay County after the confrontation near Northeast Barry Road and North Indiana Avenue. The man survived but remained in pain and had medical complications days later, according to family posts described in the case. Investigators said the episode was not a chance meeting but followed a call that the new girlfriend later told police made her think she was being set up.

The chain of events began earlier Monday evening, when the new girlfriend received a call from a woman who claimed her Mercedes was being towed from the former boyfriend’s apartment. She was with the man at the time. The couple went to check the apartment area and did not see signs that the car was being removed, according to the probable cause account. The girlfriend told investigators she believed the call was meant to draw them out. She then drove the Mercedes while the man followed in a Cadillac, trying to move the car away from the apartment area.

As the two vehicles traveled on North Indiana Avenue, the man noticed a Buick behind them and called his father. He said his former girlfriend was following him and that her mother might be with her, according to the police account. The man took random turns to see whether the Buick would keep following. Police said it did. That detail became a key part of the probable cause statement because it showed, in investigators’ view, that the Buick was tracking the couple before the shooting rather than traveling the same route by coincidence.

The pursuit ended near the McDonald’s at 8650 North Indiana Avenue after the new girlfriend’s Mercedes stalled near a stop sign as the pair tried to leave the area. Koop and her mother allegedly pulled up behind the disabled Mercedes, got out of the Buick and moved toward the car. Police said the women began striking the vehicle with a wooden bat, damaging the Mercedes and breaking glass. The girlfriend remained at the center of the confrontation while the former boyfriend arrived nearby in the Cadillac.

The man got out of the Cadillac and approached Koop while holding a knife at his side, police said. Investigators said Koop fired two rounds, striking him both times. The shooting happened in front of nearby businesses in a busy commercial corridor. After he was hit, the man called his father and said he had been shot by Jolie at the McDonald’s and needed medical help. The father went to the scene and drove his son to a fire station before emergency responders took over.

The Clay County Prosecutor’s Office said the victim’s father took him to a local fire station after the shooting. Reports tied the fire station to North Oak Trafficway, where first responders could provide faster care than waiting at the original scene. The man was then taken to a hospital. His father later wrote that his son was stable but had needed more surgery to stop bleeding and clotting around his lungs. A relative said the bullet went through his lung and out his back, passing close to his spinal cord.

Investigators said surveillance cameras from nearby businesses captured key parts of the confrontation. The footage allegedly showed the Buick pulling up behind the Mercedes and Koop and her mother moving toward the car before it was struck with a bat. Police said the video also showed the shooting. That evidence is expected to be central as prosecutors try to show what happened in the moments before the gunfire and as the defense weighs the fact that the wounded man approached while holding a knife.

Family members described the shooting as planned. The victim’s father wrote online, “This crazy chick Jolie Koop just shot my son,” and later said, “Justice for my son.” He also accused Koop’s mother of being an accessory because of the alleged attack on the Mercedes. Police reports described the mother as present during the incident and as taking part in the damage to the car, but available reports did not say she had been charged. That gap remains one of the open questions in the case.

The case also follows a prior allegation involving Koop and the same former boyfriend. Police said this was the second known incident in which Koop allegedly used a gun against him. She had been charged in November with third-degree domestic assault and unlawful use of a weapon after she allegedly attacked him while he was trying to leave her home with his property. That earlier case does not decide the new charges, but it gives prosecutors a history they may raise as the case moves through court.

Koop is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. Her next major court step is a preliminary hearing scheduled for May 29, when a judge can review whether prosecutors have enough evidence for the case to move forward. Investigators have not publicly named the wounded man or his new girlfriend.

Author note: Last updated May 8, 2026.