OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - A former pastor from New Jersey has been ordered to stand trial on charges that he tried to choke an infant girl he didn’t know at a Kansas City-area Wal-Mart.
The Kansas City Star (https://bit.ly/2nbUUkX ) reports a judge in Kansas’ Johnson County ordered 54-year-old Oleh Zhownirovych (OH’-lay zow-nur-VIK’) to be tried on charges of aggravated battery, aggravated kidnapping and battery.
Monquisha Hill testified Thursday she was in the checkout line last October with her then-4-month-old daughter in a car seat in a cart when a man she didn’t know took the infant from her cart and began choking her. People in the store helped the woman and held the man until officers arrived.
The baby wasn’t injured.
A May 22 trial is set for Zhownirovych, of Clifton, New Jersey.
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Information from: The Kansas City Star, https://www.kcstar.com
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