Josiah Kelly, the 30-year-old Anchor Point man arrested earlier this month for three shootings at two Homer buildings, was indicted by a Kenai grand jury on Wednesday.
According to a press release from the State Department of Law, the grand jury returned 12 counts total for the three shootings under one case number — he previously faced seven charges across two separate cases.
The indictment includes three charges of second-degree misconduct involving weapons, two charges of first-degree misconduct involving weapons, two charges third-degree criminal mischief, three charges of third-degree assault and two charges of second-degree terroristic threatening.
A charge of terroristic threatening, per the indictment, describes a crime of threatening harm to human life or property in a way that may create “reasonable fear of serious physical injury to any person by means of a dangerous instrument.”
Each of the 12 charges are felony offenses.
According to charging documents filed on Nov. 12, at the time of Kelly’s initial arrest, Homer Police were called around 6 a.m. on Nov. 11 to reports of gunfire near Ben Walters Lane but were unable to find damage or other evidence.
Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic Executive Director Claudia Haines reported eight bullet holes, around 1 p.m., in a building that houses her office and other facilities — but not their actual clinic.
Later that night, around 7 p.m., police responded again to the same building for more reported gunshots, and later detained Kelly when a truck connected to him was seen leaving the area. An affidavit included in charging documents says they found a pistol under his seat and that Kelly told police he had been motivated by “religious beliefs.”
Homer Police, according to the affidavit, also connected the incident to an Oct. 20 report of seven bullet holes in Kachemak Bay Recovery Connection on Pioneer Avenue.
A hearing scheduled for Kelly on Friday, Nov. 22, was vacated after the indictment, and Kelly’s case was reassigned to Kenai Superior Court Judge Kelly Lawson. An arraignment is scheduled for Nov. 26 at 2:30 p.m.
Reach reporter Jake Dye at jacob.dye@peninsulaclarion.com.
