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Enraged ex-husband fatally shoots former wife, her new beau in their million-dollar LI home after bitter divorce battle
By Steven Vago, Larry Celona, Dennis Clark,
2 hours ago
An enraged ex-husband fatally shot his former wife and her new beau inside their million-dollar Long Island home Wednesday night after a bitter divorce battle, officials said.
Daniel Coppola, 50, allegedly blasted the couple — Kelly Coppola, 50, and Kenneth Pohlman, 53 — while they slept in their St. James home around 11:45 p.m. after he warned his daughter to sit in his car outside 21 Brasswood Road, according to cops and law enforcement sources.
“The daughter was in the house and he reached out to her and told her to get out of the house,” Detective Lt. Kevin Breyer told reporters.
Kelly Coppola was murdered by her ex-husband in her million-dollar home, police say. Google Maps
Daniel Coppola then fled the gruesome scene while the suspicious teen — whom he shared with his ex-wife — grew worried about her mom.
“As he’s driving her, she is communicating with friends via text saying, ‘I don’t know what my father did. I don’t know how my mother is,'” Breyer added.
Her pals called her mom but were unable to get in touch with her — leading them to call 911.
Daniel Coppola was later arrested at his St. James home about a mile away from the blood-soaked scene and is under mental evaluation after making suicidal statements, police said.
The bloodshed came after the former couple finalized their divorce a year or two ago, according to Breyer.
“Apparently the divorce is final [and] apparently it was a contentious divorce,” he added, without elaborating.
The murder happened after a bitter divorce battle. News12
Investigators at a home at 21 Brasswood Road in Suffolk County. Kelly Coppola, 50, and her boyfriend, Kenneth Pohlman, 53, who lived at the residence, were shot by Coppola’s ex-husband, Daniel Coppola. News12
Police said there was no order of protection issued against the bitter ex, but they were called for a non-criminal dispute between the pair while they were married.
Kelly Coppola and Pohlman shared the six-bedroom, four-bath, $1.1 million home, officials said. A friend of Pohlman’s, Geoff Boyle, remembered him as a “great family man” and “awesome workout buddy.”
A neighbor, who said he heard two shots last night, told The Post that Pohlman owned the house and Coppola moved in a few years ago.
They dated for two years and connected after Pohlman’s wife died from cancer, according to police sources.
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