Lester Holt

She said that she just heard a loud bang, which she got up to investigate.

And that's when she found her husband was covered in blood.

Mom brought her back to my mom's house.

I met him there.

Nobody breaks into houses and shoots people in Dreyer, Iowa.

So it's just not something that happens.

There was a purse that was thrown outside of a vehicle door.

It was Karina's purse.

Yeah, that's what it appeared to be with Karina saying that an intruder had came in and had robbed them and shot her husband.

You know, I bought a motion sensor, light.

We tried to keep them busy, keep their minds off things.

I mean, you can only forget for so long before it comes back.

My first assumption was that somebody stopped on the highway for some reason and was looking to rob the house or something like that and saw that Ryan was sitting in his recliner and freaked out.

It just made no sense that somebody would come to a farmhouse and walk in the door and shoot someone in the face for no reason.

Yeah, it did not appear that he had tried to get up.

There was no defensive wounds.

The only name that she brought up was Nolan DeWall.

did an interview with him and just kind of asked him about Ryan Cooper.

Yes.

There was no finger pointing.