Woman shoots and kills estranged husband in front of their three children at Walmart parking lot
The couple's three children were sitting in a vehicle during the incident as they were to exchange custody
A Louisiana woman has been charged with second-degree murder after she fatally shot her estranged husband in the parking lot of an Alexandria Walmart in front of their three children on Saturday morning, law enforcement officials said.
Thirty-one-year-old Kayla Giles was booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center after the incident. She resides at the 6500 block of Coliseum Boulevard in a gated community nearby the store where the incident occurred. Later in the day, police revealed that her bond was set at $500,000. Giles and her husband, 30-year-old Thomas Coutee Jr, had been meeting to exchange custody of their three children. Authorities said Giles shot her husband once in his chest.