A former pastor, Oleh Zhownirovych has been identified by
police as the man who allegedly choked a stranger’s baby in a Kansas
Wal-Mart on Wednesday.
He has been charged with felony aggravated battery and attempted
kidnapping, officials tell PEOPLE.
Zhownirovych is accused of choking a woman’s 4-month-old
daughter in the store’s checkout line on Wednesday morning, according to
Overland Park police spokesman John Lacy.
He says that Quisha Hill told police she was bagging
her groceries when Zhownirovych allegedly grabbed her daughter’s car
seat out of the shopping cart and said, “I’m taking the baby, I’m stealing
her. I’m taking her.”
Hill told police that Zhownirovych choked the girl and also
raised her car seat — with her still in it — over his head as he yelled, Lacy
says.
Hill said she started screaming, and a shopper and security
guard noticed what was happening and tackled the suspect.
The 54-year-old was once a pastor at a New Jersey Ukrainian
Orthodox cathedral, Lacy says.
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