Four suspects already in custody for a downtown kidnapping have now been charged for a second kidnapping and home invasion.
Christopher Turner, 19; Jeffery McClendon, Jr., 19; and Twain Jackson, 20, are scheduled to appear in Hamilton County General Sessions Court on Sept. 7 to face charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery, conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery.
The men were charged today in a Saturday kidnapping and subsequent home invasion and assault.
On Aug. 25 the men assaulted Mychael Chunn,19, as he walked to his car from his downtown workplace, forced him into his trunk, drove to his home, stole his property and pawned it before releasing him after the 10-hour ordeal.
The suspects then rushed 26-year-old Joseph Clark as he walked to work Aug. 28, forced him into the trunk of his car. Clark was able to escape using an interior trunk release latch within shortly after the kidnapping.
Shortly after that incident the men kicked open a door at a 4000-block Tennessee Avenue apartment next to Clark’s. The men then beating apartment residents William Wan and Weiran Yang while ransacking the apartment.
Police will add more aggravated assault and aggravated robbery charges against the men. Charges of residential robbery and theft over $1,000 are pending.