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Monday, July 1, 2013

Columbia man arrested after holding woman and baby at gunpoint

   Police officials successfully negotiated the surrender of a Columbia man who held his former girlfriend and baby at gunpoint Saturday, then threatened to take his own life.

   Reports filed through the Lawrenceburg Police Department show that officers were dispatched to the East Heights Street home shortly before 9:00 p.m.

   The victim, age 30, reported that she had been sitting on her bed painting her toenails when she looked up to find, Todd Evans Cannady, 30, of 517 Pawnee Trail, Columbia, standing in the doorway holding a rifle.

She told officers that he was covered in dirt and had what appeared to be insulation on the back of his shirt. She said he stated that, “If the three of them could not be together on earth, then he would kill them all, that way they could be together in the afterlife.”

   The victim told officers she and her fifteen month old son had been held at gunpoint by Cannady for two hours. She said that he showed her the bullets saying that he “came prepared,” and that while making threats to shoot her and the baby, he would rub the gun barrel against her cheek.

   The victim reported that during the ordeal she inched closer to the door. When she reached it she said she unlocked it and asked Cannady to come outside and leave with them, but he refused and secured the lock.

She said that she threw her keys at him, distracting him long enough for her to escape with the baby. She ran across the street to a neighbor’s house where she placed a 911 call.

   Officers report that after Cannady barricaded himself inside the house they were able to make contact by phone.

They continued negotiations with him for a period of one hour and forty-five minutes before he surrendered himself. They report finding a loaded .22 caliber rifle inside the home.

   Cannady was transported to the Lawrence County Detention Center where he was booked under two counts of aggravated assault, aggravated burglary, aggravated kidnapping and especially aggravated kidnapping.

He will answer the charges in Lawrence County General Session Court on September 5, 2013.

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