The man accused of beating and kidnapping an Oakwood Village woman before fleeing to Pennsylvania is facing eight charges, and remains in Pennsylvania indefinitely, as another woman he’s accused of beating fights for her life.
The charges against Kyle Johnson, 25, include aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and burglary. Erie County, PA District Attorney Jack Daneri told newsnet5.com Johnson will be charged with felony murder, if the Erie woman he’s accused of beating across the head with a crow bar on Tuesday, dies from her injuries. Authorities are not releasing her name, but said she is in critical condition at UPMC Hamot Hospital in Erie.
Kyle Johnson, man accused of abducting, beating ex before fleeing to PA - in a PA prison on 8 charges, $500,000 bond pic.twitter.com/b7Nw66Q9Ns
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“If there was any more of a worse way to say critical, I would use it but she’s not in good condition at all,” Erie Deputy Police Chief Donald Dacus said.
According to a criminal complaint, Police said Johnson used a crow bar to break into a home in the 300 block of Crescent Drive in Erie, before using it to beat up the woman inside. When the victim’s husband came home, he thought his wife was already dead. The husband and Johnson fought, with Johnson pulling out a box cutter and stabbing the man. Police said the attack happened at random.
Investigators said a neighbor shot Johnson twice before police arrived. Daneri said Tuesday he is reviewing the case to determine whether that force was necessary.
Meanwhile, police said Brandi Shakir, 23, Johnson’s ex-girlfriend whom he’s accused of previously beating and kidnapping from Oakwood, was in the basement. Police said Shakir is doing okay and cooperating with investigators.
Police said they may never know why any of this happened.
"You want to know what drove a person to do this? What could be so bad that you would resort to something like this?” Dacus said.
Johnson is being held in the Erie County prison on a $500,000 bond, but District Attorney Daneri said that bond would be revoked in the event he’s charged with felony murder.
Investigators from Oakwood Village were in Erie on Wednesday interviewing Johnson, but Dacus said their cases will have to wait.
“He is not going back to Ohio,” Dacus said. "He’s going to be a Pennsylvania resident."
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