LAS CRUCES - A Las Cruces woman is likely counting her blessings after her neighbor allegedly tried to shoot her, but missed.

A bullet hole was found in the wall next to where the woman was standing, court documents indicate.

The neighbor, Danielle Kelso, 48, has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault against a household member with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment, battery against a household member, and assault against a household member.

Court documents indicate Kelso thought her neighbor in the Quail Ridge Apartments, 251 N. Roadrunner Parkway, was having an affair with her boyfriend. In interviews with police after the shooting, the boyfriend and the neighbor said they knew each other only in passing.

The incident

Kelso allegedly fired one shot at her neighbor about 10:50 a.m. Monday, July 1.

The woman who was shot at told police that her first encounter with Kelso was Monday morning, as she was leaving her apartment. She told police Kelso was yelling obscenities at her through the window of her next-door neighbor's apartment.

The woman told police she was confused about Kelso's behavior and that she ignored her. But as the woman was walking down a flight of stairs, she realized she had forgotten something and walked back up the stairs toward her apartment.

It was then, the woman told police, that Kelso exited her boyfriend's apartment and was "aggressively engaging her," court documents state.

Kelso stepped away from the doorway and returned with a gun, the woman told police.

Court documents state the woman could see that Kelso was still yelling at her, but she was "solely focused on the barrel of the gun." A moment later, she told police, she heard the gun fire and "closed her eyes in preparation to be shot."

When the gunshot didn't hit her, the woman said she ran into her apartment and called 911 and her apartment manager.

Before the gunshot

Kelso's boyfriend told police they were in an on-again, off-again relationship and that she had been staying with him for about six days. In court documents, Kelso's address is listed as 999 W. Amador Ave., or the Community of Hope.

The boyfriend said Kelso became angry the night before the shooting when she saw him and the neighbor exiting their apartments at the same time, court documents state.

The next morning, the boyfriend said he witnessed Kelso yelling at his neighbor. He told police that's when he tried to kick her out of his apartment, but she refused. Kelso approached him "aggressively with her fists raised and shoved him," so he went into his room, court documents state.

The boyfriend said he again heard Kelso yelling, so he left his room to intervene. That's when he saw Kelso retrieve his gun from a nearby drawer, he told police.

Court documents indicate the boyfriend ran toward Kelso, but couldn't reach her before a shot was fired. The boyfriend told police Kelso then "turned toward him with the gun," but he was able to wrestle it away from her.

When the apartment manager approached, following the shooting, Kelso "started to act oblivious to the incident," the boyfriend told police. Kelso told responding officers she did not speak to the neighbor or fire a gun, court documents state.

According to a courts database, Kelso pleaded no contest to charges of car burglary and larceny in 2012. In 2013, she was charged with battery on a household member, but that charge was dismissed.

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Bethany Freudenthal can be reached at bfreudenthal@lcsun-news.com, 575-541-5449 or @bethanyfreuden1 on Twitter.

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