'She f—ed up my life': Husband hides in bushes at Walmart, walks up 'slowly' behind his wife as she leaves and executes her in parking lot, cops say

Inset: Destino Jean-Louis (Montgomery County District Attorney's Office). Background: The Walmart successful Pennsylvania wherever Destino Jean-Louis allegedly changeable and killed his woman Latosha Cooper (WCAU/YouTube).

A husband successful Pennsylvania hid down a bush extracurricular a Walmart, waiting for his woman to decorativeness her displacement and permission earlier "slowly" walking up to her and shooting the pistillate dormant successful the parking lot arsenic she talked with a co-worker, cops say.

Destino Jean-Louis, 23, faces first-degree execution and different charges successful transportation with the Oct. 21 shooting of Latosha Cooper, 45, extracurricular a Walmart successful Cheltenham, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office.

A transgression ailment and probable origin affidavit obtained by Law&Crime says Jean-Louis, a erstwhile worker astatine the Walmart, was caught connected information video "pacing" and "lying successful wait" down a bush erstwhile Cooper walked extracurricular with a pistillate co-worker aft her shift.

"[The co-worker] and the unfortunate walked retired to their vehicles unneurotic and were lasting successful the parking batch talking," the affidavit says. "[The co-worker] said she saw a achromatic antheral … wearing a blue-gray colored bladed hooded sweatshirt with the hood up and a disguise that covered his face, locomotion by her. [The co-worker] said the antheral dilatory walked up toward the unfortunate and changeable her."

The co-worker told constabulary she "thought she heard 2 oregon 3 gunshots" arsenic she ran toward the store entrance. The pistillate utilized her cellphone to telephone Walmart employees and inquire them to unlock the door. She told her co-workers what had happened and past called 911, according to the affidavit.

Police accidental the onslaught happened astir 11:30 p.m. connected Oct. 21. Jean-Louis allegedly fled to Philadelphia connected ft aft the shooting, leaving Cooper with a fatal gunshot coiled to the caput beside her Nissan sedan.

According to the affidavit, Jean-Louis was lasting conscionable southwest of the Walmart parking lot, facing a "direct enactment of show to the main entranceway of the Walmart" erstwhile helium saw Cooper locomotion outside.

"The fishy was observed walking astatine a speedy gait successful an evident effort to drawback up to the victim," the affidavit says. "As the unfortunate walked successful beforehand of her conveyance toward the driver's side, the fishy approached her from the rear of the vehicle, appeared to drawback her precocious body, and extended his arm."

Jean-Louis and Cooper allegedly met portion moving astatine the Walmart and formed a "romantic relationship," according to constabulary and prosecutors. City records amusement that they were issued a matrimony licence successful March 2025.

A erstwhile workfellow and person of Cooper told cops that Cooper joined Jean-Louis successful 2025 due to the fact that helium was having "immigration issues," according to the affidavit.

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"Although Latosha and Destino were engaged successful an intimate relationship, [the friend] said their superior extremity was to unafraid migration presumption with the United States for Destino," the affidavit alleges.

Another worker told investigators that Cooper "married Destino, a Haitian native, to assistance him stay successful the country," according to the affidavit. The mates had home problems and Jean-Louis admitted to "physically assaulting" Cooper successful the past due to the fact that "she had disrespected him," the affidavit says.

"When [the employee] told him this was wrong, Destino replied that successful his state specified disrespect is not tolerated and that helium would bash it again," according to the affidavit.

The worker and others who worked with Cooper said Jean-Louis was "calling Walmart employees," allegedly to get Cooper's enactment schedule.

According to the affidavit, Cooper told co-workers that Jean-Louis was "not consenting to bash the work" needed to assistance his migration status. She allegedly "cut ties" with Jean-Louis and helium "was not blessed astir this separation," per the affidavit.

"She f—ed up my life," Jean-Louis allegedly said during a constabulary interview, aft being asked astir their marriage, which helium described arsenic "difficult."

"Jean-Louis admitted to contacting Walmart employees to spot if Latosha Cooper was moving and said helium made the excuse that 'she owed him money,'" the affidavit explains.

Jean-Louis allegedly told co-workers that helium was upset with Cooper "for nary longer answering his calls, which was interfering with his migration process," according to the affidavit.

Jean-Louis said during his constabulary interrogation that helium and Cooper began dating successful April 2024. He claimed she told him, "I could marque you get a Green Card," according to the affidavit.

Police accidental Jean-Louis' telephone information showed helium was successful the country of the Walmart astatine the clip of the shooting. When detectives asked why, helium allegedly said, "I don't cognize how."

An autopsy later determined that Cooper died from aggregate gunshot wounds. The aesculapian examiner ruled her decease a homicide, and the bullets recovered during the autopsy were .22-caliber, constabulary said.

Jean-Louis was arrested connected Oct. 23 by members of the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force astatine a Philadelphia residence pursuing an migration investigation. During a consequent hunt of the home, detectives allegedly recovered a sandwich container containing 11 rounds of .22-caliber ammunition.

Jean-Louis' cellphone records amusement aggregate trips betwixt the Philadelphia residence and the Walmart successful the weeks earlier Cooper was shot, according to the affidavit. He besides faces third-degree execution and related firearms charges.

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