A Minnesota woman prayed that god “guide my bullets like you guided David’s rock” before she opened fire earlier this month on a neighbor she believed was “murdering and raping people” with her husband.

The victim was hit by bullet fragments that lodged in her eye and brain, causing a brain bleed, according to a probable cause affidavit, which said she was still hospitalized as of Thursday.

Ava Kock Affidavit by kc wildmoon

Ava Kock, 64, has been charged with one count of attempted murder and two counts of assault.

According to the affidavit, the victim’s husband called 911 at about 10 p.m. on August 12 to report the incident. He said he had been inside the couple’s apartment playing video games when his wife called and asked him to come outside. He found her “hunkered down behind the dash” of their Jeep Wrangler with bullet holes in the driver’s side door and windshield.

Winona County deputies arrived and began investigating, noting that the bullets appeared to come from a window in a neighboring apartment rented by Kock. All the windows in Kock’s apartment had holes in the screens covered by tape — except one, which had seven holes “roughly the same size as the bullet holes in the vehicle.” Additionally, the holes in the screen appeared to be pushed out.

Kock told the deputies she heard a commotion outside but refused to go investigation “based on a previous incident in the area where. a shelter in place was ordered. She explained that all the screens in her apartment had holes when she moved in and that she had put tape over them to keep bugs out. The deputy explained the bullet trajectory and asked to come in to investigate, and Kock granted permission.

Kock said she had a gun but hadn’t fired it in years and denied firing any gun recently. The deputies said Kock was “cooperative and was willing to participate with a gunshot residue kit if requested.” They obtained no further information from her and left to continue the investigation.

But everything changed the next day when Kock called 911 and said she had tried to contact the FBI and wanted to meet with law enforcement about murders that had allegedly taken place in Elba. She agreed to meet police at a local park.

Once there, she said she believed the victim and her husband “were murdering and raping people” and that she had “heard them digging graves in the basement of their apartment and believes he has people and kids buried there.”

“Defendant stated she had to intervene because the justice system hasn’t done anything to stop Witness and Victim’s criminal behavior,” the affidavit said.

So, she told the deputies, she took her son’s .22 caliber rifle from a storage shed and opened fire when she saw the Jeep pull into the apartment, believing that both the victim and her husband were inside.

“Defendant stated she said a prayer like, ‘guide my bullets like you guided David’s rock’ and fired seven rounds because seven is referenced in the Bible several times,” the document says. “She told Officers after she fired the rounds she felt at peace, and she didn’t care that Victim was injured.”

Kock then hid the gun behind her stove and the spent shell casings in a potted plant. Upon executing a search warrant, deputies found the gun behind the stove and six of the seven shell casings in the plant. A seventh was found on a rug in the bathroom, where Kock attacked her neighbor.

According to KTTC, Kock was given a $500,000 bond last week and ordered back to court on Thursday.

Police did not say if they found any evidence of the victim and her husband raping and murdering people, but even if they had, Kock would be charged.