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Trial ordered for former pastor accused of choking an infant he didn’t know

Oleh Zhownirovych
Oleh Zhownirovych
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.

A judge in Johnson County ordered 54-year-old Oleh Zhownirovych to be tried.

He is charged with 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.

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