THOUSAND OAKS : Woman Faces 19 Counts in Shooting Spree

Prosecutors on Wednesday added four felony counts to a complaint filed last week against a Thousand Oaks woman accused of shooting up a residential neighborhood during a drunken rage.

Kathleen Ann Quinn now faces 19 counts ranging from shooting at inhabited dwellings to drunk driving in connection with the incident.

The 45-year-old messenger service saleswoman was arrested Dec. 12 on suspicion of shooting randomly at numerous cars and buildings, including houses when children were home. No one was injured by gunfire.

Quinn was released from Ventura County Jail after 16 hours and ordered to appear in court Friday. But she missed that court date after checking into Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Woodland Hills; she was rearrested at the facility earlier this week on a $50,000 warrant.

Joseph D. O’Neill, representing Quinn while her attorney is vacationing out of the country, said Wednesday that Quinn should not be forced to spend Christmas in jail.

“Different things should have been done,” O’Neill said outside court Wednesday, moments after his request to reduce Quinn’s bail was denied. “This woman is sitting in jail when this damn thing could have been avoided, which makes me very, very angry.”

Reached at her Paris hotel late Wednesday, attorney-of-record Jenny Scovis said she advised her client to do as her doctor had suggested because Quinn was suicidal.

“I told her to follow her doctor’s advice,” Scovis said. The doctor “told me that if (Quinn) doesn’t go into a mental hospital, she’ll probably be dead.”

Quinn, who was on probation for a public drunkenness conviction earlier this year at the time of her most recent arrest, is scheduled to be arraigned in Ventura County Municipal Court on Wednesday.