'Guess I outsmarted the cops': Woman hit 2 people with her Camry, bragged on Facebook about not getting caught, then attacked another man with a butcher knife, police say

A Wisconsin pistillate is down bars aft signaling herself bragging astir escaping the clutches of instrumentality enforcement successful the aftermath of hitting radical with her car successful a promenade parking lot, constabulary successful Illinois say. The braggadocio came conscionable moments earlier an allegedly related knife attack.

Katelyn A. Harmon, 25, stands accused of 2 counts each of attempted murder successful the archetypal degree, nonaccomplishment to study a clang involving idiosyncratic injury, aggravated artillery causing large bodily harm, and 4 counts of aggravated artillery with a deadly weapon, according to the Lake County State's Attorney's Office.

The underlying incidental occurred precocious Monday greeting successful the parking batch of Gurnee Mills, an outlet promenade named aft a medium-sized colony successful the bluish reaches of the broader Chicago metro area.

The archetypal incidental occurred astir 10:05 a.m. successful a Hobby Lobby parking batch connected West Grand Avenue, according to a press release issued by the Gurnee Police Department.

There, the suspect allegedly drove her 2010 Toyota Camry into a 79-year-old antheral who was lasting adjacent his ain vehicle. After that, Harmon utilized her car to onslaught a 60-year-old woman, constabulary said.

"The 79-year-old antheral sustained superior injuries and was transported to Advocate Condell Hospital," the property merchandise reads. "The 60-year-old pistillate sustained an ankle wounded and was transported to Lake Forest Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The conveyance fled the country anterior to the officers' arrival."

At 10:40 a.m., constabulary issued an alert to surrounding instrumentality enforcement agencies to beryllium connected the lookout for the wanted Camry. The alert noted the wanted car had sustained disposable harm to its windshield connected the rider broadside owed to the interaction of hitting the 2 pedestrians.

But each the while, Harmon was adjacent by, constabulary allege.

Instead of leaving the country entirely, Harmon drove immoderate 850 feet to the adjacent parking batch down a Panera Bread and different retailers, constabulary said. Then, astatine 10:31 a.m., she allegedly posted a confession connected Facebook — containing 2 images of the harm to her Camry.

"I ran done gurnee mills promenade parking batch and ran implicit radical successful the sanction of the airy bully intentions praise allah Hare Krishna convey you Jesus," the incriminating Facebook station reads.

And past the posting continued.

At 10:37 a.m., portion sitting successful her car, Harmon posted a abbreviated clip of herself brandishing a ample room weapon and goading police.

"Hey, they inactive haven't recovered me," the pistillate says. "I conjecture I outsmarted the cops. God ever wins. Here's a — I'm extracurricular this Panera Bread adjacent to Gurnee Mills. Someone should telephone the cops connected me. I mean, I was a bully idiosyncratic and present I'm homeless. So, apparently, bully radical don't triumph anymore. Whoops — inactive won."

Minutes aft the video was posted, the suspect got retired of her car and attacked a Hyundai Tucson SUV that had parked adjacent to her, according to the Lake & McHenry County Scanner.

"The pistillate utilized a ample butcher weapon to onslaught the vehicle's model and past slashed the driver's broadside tire," the constabulary section said. "When the antheral exited his vehicle, a carnal conflict ensued. The antheral sustained respective lacerations to his hands but was capable to disarm the pistillate and restrain her until constabulary arrived."

Several members of instrumentality enforcement descended connected the country and Harmon was taken down with a Taser-like device, constabulary said.

The unit appeared random arsenic determination was nary anterior transportation betwixt the suspect and the victims, according to instrumentality enforcement.

On Wednesday, Harmon appeared earlier a justice for an archetypal quality wherever authorities played a custodial interrogation with investigators, according to a courtroom study by the Scanner.

"You said you came retired present for premeditated murder?" an serviceman asks.

To which Harmon replies: "I was readying connected murdering someone."

The serviceman asked wherefore and the pistillate said: "I conscionable went rogue."

Later connected successful the interview, the serviceman explains that determination are resources for the stateless — which prompts the suspect to laughter and say: "Oh, I'm not getting retired of here. I'm not getting retired of here. I'll bash it again. I request help."

Harmon is adjacent slated to look successful tribunal connected Feb. 26.