Chris Townsend

Officials say a Madisonville area woman has been arrested and booked with multiple offenses, including attempted second degree murder, after a drive by shooting in the Kathmann Estates subdivision.

Investigators say the incident occured as 33-year-old Anthonia Montairo Catoire-Miller of #7 Hester St., Madisonville was driving a minivan with three of her teenage children Monday afternoon near the intersection of Kathmann and Hester streets off Highway 22.

According to police, Catoire-Miller spotted her daughter's ex-boyfriend standing nearby with a group of friends.

After driving a short distance away from the group, police say that the woman stopped her vehicle and backed up, and pointed the barrel of a .410 shotgun out of the driver's side window and fired one shot in the boy's direction.

Although the intended victim was just fifteen to twenty feet feet from the vehicle, he was not hit, according to a Sheriff's Department spokesman.

Investigators say Catoire-Miller then parked her vehicle in a nearby driveway and walked a short distance with her children to her residence at 70 Oak Park Drive.

Deputies responding to a 911 call say they found an extremely combative Catoire-Miller in her residence.

After being handcuffed and placed in the rear of a patrol car, officers say she used her legs to kick out one of the unit's rear windows. Deputies say they were finally able to subdue Catoire-Miller after using a taser.

Deputies say they were unable to determine a motive for the shooting.

"She was extremely combative with our deputies when we got there," said St. Tammany Sheriff spokesman George Bonnette.  "We did wind up having to taze her, and she broke some windows out of the patrol car. So, she wasn't very cooperative and wasn't saying much about why she did it."

Investigators say the shotgun was retrieved from the woman's home.

During processing at the jail, officials say a second live shotgun shell was found in the woman's brassiere.

Catorie-Miller was booked Monday evening with attempted second degree murder, simple criminal damage to property, resisting an officer, taking contraband to and from a penal institution, and two contempt of court warrants.

She remains in the St. Tammany Parish Jail in lieu of $83,000 bond.