The man killed his brother, who was posted overseas at the time and having an affair with his wife, after being told about it, police say.
Kyle Andrew Coolack, 39, was caught by police in Iowa after being on the run for two years.
In 2022, he killed his younger brother, according to police in Houston, Texas. This small town is in the northeast of Iowa, about 1,000 miles from the murder scene.
Around 7:14 a.m. Sunday, a person from Pomeroy called the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office to say that Coolack told people in the home that he killed his own brother. They told him to leave, so he walked south toward Fort Dodge.
The suspect was caught by an officer who saw him walking along Highway 4. Coolack reportedly gave the deputy a fake name at first, but he later admitted who he really was. Police said they had a warrant out for his arrest for killing his 35-year-old brother Brad Coolack on March 11, 2022.
A probable cause arrest document says that a man named “Coolack” called 911 to report that another man “was shot in the leg” and had died. The person calling on the victim’s phone took a deep breath and said, “Stay with me, bro.”
He said the person wasn’t breathing and didn’t have a pulse. When the man, later identified as Kyle Coolack, was asked how the shooting happened, he reportedly said, “I don’t know what the f—— happened” and said he had just gotten home and found the victim shot. According to the police, the caller hung up and wouldn’t take any more calls.
Police in Houston found the person with several gunshot wounds in the bedroom of an apartment. The paramedics said he was dead.
Detectives saw that the bedroom door looked like it had been broken through. Three empty shells were lying on the ground. The affidavit said that Brad Coolack, who was separated at the time, was shot in the back from close range, as shown by an autopsy.
Police talked to a neighbor who said she heard two guys arguing right before the shooting. “You slept with my wife!” one is said to have told the other. Soon after, gunshots were heard. The victim’s ex-wife told police that she had a “extramarital affair” with her brother-in-law Kyle Coolack while her husband was deployed overseas, as stated in the statement.
The mother of the Coolack boys told police that Kyle Coolack had hit Brad Coolack with a pistol a few months before the alleged murder.
Two of Brad Coolack’s friends are said to have confirmed what happened. The mother told the police that Kyle “likely” killed his brother and would often stay at his brother’s apartment.
Detectives also found out that Kyle Coolack reportedly threatened a coworker in May 2021 by sending the coworker a selfie of himself holding a 9 mm handgun, which is the same type of gun that was used to kill Brad Coolack.
Inside the flat, police found a 9-mm gun case that was empty. Police say that Kyle Coolack bought the gun in March 2021, which is what the records show.
On July 15, 2022, police issued an order for his arrest. The person who turned him in told KEYC, a CBS/Fox station in southern Minnesota, that Kyle Coolack was pretending to be a veteran who needed work, so he let him stay at his house until he made his statement.
The suspect is in the Carroll County Jail right now while they wait to be sent back to Houston.
