A Pennsylvania man is accused of climbing into his ex-girlfriend’s window and kidnapping her, her baby, and the woman’s grandmother before holding them against their will for days.
Tylar Greenough, 30, is charged with kidnapping to inflict injury/terror and aggravated assault, according to the Fayette County District Attorney’s Office.
“He came in through a second-story window using a ladder and essentially held the victims hostage for the entire weekend,” Fayette County District Attorney Mike Aubele told CBS News.
The woman and her grandmother were assaulted by Greenough during the incident, which began in Uniontown on August 28, per the outlet.
Greenough entered his ex-girlfriend’s home that day while “subject to an active protection from abuse order,” the district attorney’s office said in a Tuesday, September 1, news release.
“His ex-girlfriend stated he was upset because she had an intimate relationship with another male,” police wrote in documents obtained by CBS News. “She stated that Greenough expressed a desire to have her watch everyone get killed before he killed her.”
Greenough allegedly assaulted the woman and her grandmother at her home and a local hotel, authorities said.
Greenough is additionally accused of making the woman coordinate and drive to a meet-up with the man she had been seeing while forcing her grandmother and baby to remain in the trunk of her car, according to police, the outlet reported.
“The victim stated that the other male did enter the passenger seat of the vehicle and Tylar Greenough attempted to grab the male from the back seat,” police wrote in the documents viewed by CBS News. “The victim stated that the male exited the vehicle and began to flee from the vehicle. The victim stated that Tylar made her get out of the driver’s seat and he got into the driver’s seat. The victim stated that he attempted to strike the male with the vehicle unsuccessfully.”
Afterward, Greenough allegedly tried to run over the man, according to an affidavit viewed by People.
He’s also accused of forcing his ex-girlfriend to file a report accusing the man of sexual abuse, police wrote in the affidavit, per People.
Greenough ultimately brought the woman, her grandmother and child back to her Uniontown home, according to police. The woman and grandmother alerted law enforcement on August 31 of the alleged kidnapping after Greenough had gone to work, per People.
He was arrested Tuesday after the district attorney’s office said he entered his ex-girlfriend’s home again that afternoon. She was not there at the time.
Despite not being allowed to possess firearms in Pennsylvania due to a prior felony conviction, Greenough was armed with a gun when he arrived, according to the district attorney’s office.
Aubele told CBS News that authorities believed he “trashed” his ex-girlfriends house and threw “cleaning supplies because he was upset because she had gone to the police.”
Information regarding whether he had retained legal representation wasn’t immediately available.
