'IT WAS EASY': MAN, 26, WHO SHOT DEAD HIS 24-YEAR-OLD CO-WORKER THE DAY AFTER HE WAS FIRED TOLD POLICE SHE RUINED HIS LIFE-AS HE APPEARS IN SHACKLED IN COURT WEARING ANTI-SUICIDE SMOCK

'It was easy': Man, 26, who shot dead his 24-year-old co-worker the day after he was fired told police she ruined his life - as he appears in shackled in court wearing anti-suicide smock
Christopher O'Kroley, 26, is accused of shooting dead 24-year-old Caroline Nosal at Metro Market Cottage Grove in Madison, Wisconsin, on Tuesday
O'Kroley had been fired from the market on Monday, two weeks after Nosal accused him of harassment
Coworkers described the relationship between O'Kroley and Nosal, of Stoughton, as one that soured after O'Kroley 'wanted more'
Nosal died of gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen, an autopsy said
O'Kroley's bond was set at $1million on Friday after he was pushed into the courtroom in a wheelchair while wearing a suicide-prevention smock
He was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless endangerment

By KELLY MCLAUGHLIN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 00:15 EST, 6 February 2016 | UPDATED: 10:31 EST, 6 February 2016

A Wisconsin man was charged with first-degree intentional homicide on Friday after he allegedly killed one of his former coworkers in the parking lot of the market where they both worked.
Christopher O'Kroley, 26, is accused of shooting dead 24-year-old Caroline Nosal at Metro Market Cottage Grove in Madison on Tuesday, a day after he was fired from his job.
Coworkers described the relationship between O'Kroley and Nosal, of Stoughton, as one that soured after O'Kroley 'wanted more'.
O'Kroley's bond was set at $1million on Friday after he was pushed into the courtroom in a wheelchair while wearing a suicide-prevention smock, according to WKOW. An anti-suicide smock is a tear-resistant noose-proof form of clothing that officials put detainees in if they are on suicide watch.
He was also charged with first-degree reckless endangerment.

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Christopher O'Kroley, 26, is accused of shooting dead 24-year-old Caroline Nosal at Metro Market Cottage Grove in Madison, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. He is pictured in an anti-suicide smock, being wheeled into the courtroom on Friday


O'Kroley's bond was set at $1million on Friday after he was charged with first-degree intentional


Nosal, 24 (seen in a Facebook picture), died of gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen, an autopsy said. Coworkers described the relationship between O'Kroley and Nosal, of Stoughton, as one that soured


Two weeks before the shooting, O'Kroley was suspended from work after Nosal told a store manager that she was being harassed by him.
O'Kroley told police that following his suspension, he began planning to kill Nosal and himself if he was fired, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.  
He also told police when he was arrested on Wednesday that he would have shot Nosal to death a day earlier but he wanted to practice shooting the gun he had bought Monday before using it.

He went to their workplace Monday evening after practicing, but Nosal had left work. So O'Kroley went home, watched movies and ordered pizza before returning the next day to attempt the shooting again, police said.
He returned to the market on Tuesday and shot Nodal in the head and abdomen as she walked through the parking lot as she left work, a criminal complaint said.
O'Kroley had learned through former co-workers via text message - on the pretext of collecting his belongings from the store when Nosal was not there - that Nosal finished work at 8pm on Tuesday.
Christopher O'Kroley arrested Feb 3 after gunfight with cops


O'Kroley told police officers that it was 'easy' to kill Nosal because she had 'ruined my life'
He is accused of shooting her twice outside Metro Market as she left work on Tuesday


O'Kroley (pictured) told police officers that it was 'easy' to kill Nosal because she had 'ruined my life'. He is accused of shooting her twice outside Metro Market as she left work on Tuesday


A memorial was made outside Metro Market in Madison, where Nosal was shot in the head and abdomen as she left work


Two weeks before the shooting, O'Kroley was suspended from work after Nosal (pictured) told a store manager that she was being harassed by him


O'Kroley said he planned to kill Nosal and himself if he was fired from Metro Market after his suspension


But after the shooting of Nosal, he realized that he couldn't kill himself, he told police
Nosal is pictured above on Facebook
He told police that he knelt down beside her car, and when he saw Nosal turn the corner, he stood up and shot at her chest.
When she fell, he shot her once more in the head, he told police.
He said that it was 'easy' to kill Nosal because she had 'ruined my life', and that he killed her out of anger. He described himself to police as a 'sociopath'.  
'I killed Caroline and I'm about to kill myself. So don't be surprised when I don't respond anymore,' O'Kroley wrote in a text message to a coworker after the shooting.
But he realized that he couldn't kill himself, he told police, and that his plan was to 'hijack someone's car at gunpoint', but he instead fled the scene in his own car.
O'Kroley was arrested on Wednesday about four miles from an area where his car was found abandoned. Police used K9s and a drone to search for him, according to Channel 3000.
He exchanged gunfire with Madison Police Officer Michele Walker before he was arrested, which led to a first-degree reckless endangerment charge on Friday.  
'I'm glad I didn't hit her,' he said in court of firing at the officer twice. 'I don't know what else, I guess I'm sorry but... I don't know if I am sorry, I'm just glad I didn't hit her.'
Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain said the department believes that O'Kroley 'purchased the firearm locally and legally at a store, however that part of the investigation is still ongoing'.
Wisconsin Legislature eliminated a 48-hour waiting period for purchasing a handgun last year.
A former girlfriend of O'Kroley told the Wisconsin State Journal that he had been mentally ill for the past decade and tried to commit suicide in 2014.  


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