5/14/2021
Two people have been charged in Sibley County District Court in connection to a shooting last fall in Winthrop. 24-year-old Keshaun Schelven Coatie, of South St. Paul, was charged with felony first-degree attempted murder. Coatie’s girlfriend, 26-year-old Brianna Nicole Watson, of Richfield, faces charges of aiding and abetting attempted first-degree murder. Coatie is accused of shooting 23-year-old Jessica Shay Holtz, then in Winthrop, while Watson allegedly provided Coatie’s transportation. According to a criminal complaint, Holtz told investigators she answered a knock on her door shortly after midnight on November 2, 2020. Holtz said a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a medical-style facemask appeared to be disguising his voice as he asked for directions. The man said “thank you,” pointed a gun at her, and shot her. Holtz survived, despite suffering multiple gunshot wounds. She was airlifted to Hennepin County Medical Center, and told investigators she believed she had been shot by David Devor Harris or one of his friends.