19-year-old testifies against alleged attacker in brutal rape
Roberto M. Esquivel|蘑菇视频
Bobbi Jo Mack, 31, is escorted to Central Court on Tuesday by Trooper Joshua Mrosko for a preliminary hearing on charges for her alleged role in the Feb. 27 attack that left a woman lying in the woods in a pool of blood.
Roberto M. Esquivel|蘑菇视频
Isiah Duwayne Colbert, 32, is escorted to Central Court Tuesday afternoon for a preliminary hearing where he agreed to a tentative plea agreement of 25 to 50 years for his alleged role in the Feb. 27 attack that left a woman lying in the woods in a pool of blood.
A woman testified Wednesday about a celebration for her 19th birthday that ended with her lying in a pool of blood in the woods.
Bobbi Jo Mack, 31, and Isiah Colbert, 33, both of Uniontown are facing attempted homicide, rape and other charges in the alleged February attack.
Colbert waived his charges in exchange for a tentative plea deal of 25 to 50 years. Mack was held for court on all charges.
Mack sobbed for nearly 30 minutes before her hearing and claimed she was having a panic attack, but denied needing medical care. The alleged victim sat tall and resolute on the witness stand.
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She testified that she and some friends were at El Patron Mexican Grill before stopping briefly at Club 231, both in Uniontown. She said she stopped at an ATM machine at the Frick Tri-County Credit Union near the club when Colbert ran at her and punched her in the head.
Surveillance footage played at the hearing showed a forceful punch between the eyes, the woman falling and Mack rushing to pick up the woman蘑菇视频 phone and go through her sweatshirt pocket.
Colbert allegedly stood close with a gun in his pocket while forcing her to attempt to make more withdrawals from the ATM, then forced her into the car.
鈥淗e threatened to kill me if I said anything,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hat he had my ID so he knew my address.鈥�
The woman testified Mack was in the front seat. She said she was scared of both of them and believed they would kill her. She said Mack did not try to stop Colbert or attempt to leave. She testified that she had never met either person.
Colbert allegedly drove to the PNC Bank in Uniontown, forced her to make more transactions and then put her in the trunk. They then allegedly stopped at a PNC ATM at a shopping plaza on Morgantown Road where he allegedly forced her to make more transactions.
The woman testified she does not remember anything between the second time she was forced into the trunk and two days after she was released from Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Police allege the pair drove the woman into the woods near the old Coolspring Ballfield in Lemont Furnace and beat her severely. Police said Colbert raped her brutally and the two left her in a pool of blood.
The woman allegedly went to a house at 309 Coolspring Jumonville Road at about 3:45 a.m. for help.
The residents told police she 鈥渕uttered words鈥� including her name.
State police Tpr. Robert Schmid testified the woman had labored breathing and could only communicate by squeezing their hands to indicate she could hear them when he arrived at the house.
鈥淪he was slouched back in a chair. Her mouth was full of blood. The paramedics were working on her very intensively,鈥� he testified.
He said her pants were soaked with blood. She was flown by helicopter to the hospital.
There, she was treated for injuries on the front and back of her brain and severe facial trauma, according to testimony. Photographs taken at the hospital showed the woman in a neck brace with swelling to her face, severe bruising to her back, and cuts and bruises across her entire body, including her ear and hands.
鈥淥h my God, look what he did to her,鈥� Mack said when she saw the photos. She pleaded that she not see anymore.
Police found a pool of blood in the woods near the ball field, along with a trail of blood, the woman蘑菇视频 wallet and identification, shoes and socks, troopers testified.
Seminal fluid in the alleged victim蘑菇视频 underwear matched Colbert, according to testimony. Police said witnesses identified Mack from surveillance footage.
Tpr. Jason Mrosko testified he took Mack into custody during a traffic stop March 1. He said she was driving the car used to kidnap the woman.
He testified Mack told him she participated because she had not made any payments on her car and she was out of money because it was the end of the month.
Mrosko read a transcript from the interview in which Mack allegedly said, 鈥淚 could鈥檝e said 鈥榥o.鈥� I could鈥檝e walked away.鈥�
He testified that Mack admitted to dragging the woman into the woods and beating her. She allegedly told him the woman was crying and yelling.
鈥淪he was asking about that she didn鈥檛 want to die because she has a kid,鈥� he read from the transcript.
She allegedly told him that she went back to the car after Colbert told her to do so. He asked her what she thought Colbert did to her in the woods, and she allegedly responded, 鈥淗e didn鈥檛 kill her, did he?鈥�
鈥淲hen he got back to the car, she asked, 鈥業s she still alive?'鈥� Mrosko testified.
Assistant public defender Mary Campbell-Spegar argued that some of Mack蘑菇视频 charges be dismissed, saying Mack did not know Colbert was going to rape her and the two did not conspire to commit the crimes.
鈥淚t蘑菇视频 kind of interesting to hear an argument so amazingly out there,鈥� District Attorney Rich Bower responded.
Both Colbert and Mack are charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, rape, sexual assault, unlawful restraint, theft, simple assault, two counts of each of kidnap and robbery, and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, kidnap, rape, robbery, sexual assault, theft, unlawful restraint and simple assault. Colbert is facing an additional count of conspiracy to commit theft.
Magisterial District Judge Daniel C. Shimshock denied a bail reduction for Mack.
Both are lodged in Fayette County Prison in lieu of a $300,000 bond.