SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — KELOLAND News has new details surrounding the shooting in Milbank earlier this week at a nursing home that landed one person in the hospital and another in jail.
According to a probable cause statement, written by an investigator, Carrie Collins allegedly shot her supervisor in the face after she became disgruntled while being trained.
According to court papers obtained by KELOLAND News, Carrie Collins was a newer employee at Avantara Nursing Home and was in the process of being trained.
The investigator wrote she had already been written up once and was likely to be written up a second time due to her talking over other employees and talking about nursing home clients in front of other clients.
The report says Collins’ training nurse spoke with her about her behavior and told her they were going to take a lunch break.
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That’s when Collins told her she needed to get her lunch out of her car.
She went to her vehicle and returned a short time later and went to the nurse’s desk.
The report says several employees heard a loud bang and saw Collins by the desk waving a black pistol and yelling at a woman.
Witnesses inside the nursing home thought she yelled something to the effect of ‘You’re taking money from me and my children.’
The victim was seen bleeding from the face and was rushed out of the building by other employees.
Earlier this week, Attorney General Marty Jackley told me the police and other law enforcement officers responded immediately and took action.
Don: Did the nursing home have to take any sort of emergency response?
“I think everybody acted appropriately and quickly, this occurred very abruptly. A 911 call was made immediately and local law enforcement did a very strong job of responding making the apprehension, DCI was called we were on the scene, interviewing witnesses and collecting evidence, we collected a firearm and obviously a shell casing,” said Jackley.
According to court papers the bullet and casing were found to match that of the bullets recovered from Collins’ vehicle when she was taken into custody.
The AG’s office told us the victim has non-life-threatening injuries.
Collins is charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault.
Her first court appearance is scheduled for next week.