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HOLLIDAYSBURG — A city man accused of forcing his then-girlfriend into his car at gunpoint in early May 2025 was in court for the beginning of his jury trial Wednesday morning.

Landon Robert Fagan, 22, is facing a felony count of kidnap to inflict injury or terror, two misdemeanor counts each of terroristic threats and simple assault and single misdemeanor counts of unlawful restraint, stalking, false imprisonment and recklessly endangering another person. The charges were filed after Fagan allegedly waited outside DJ’s Cafe at 2068 Columbia Ave. in Tyrone for the victim to exit before brandishing a firearm and forcing her into his vehicle.

During the trial, Assistant District Attorney Dani McCormick called a witness, who is friends with the victim, to the stand. The witness said she and the victim went to DJ’s and met up with two male friends after work in the early morning hours of May 4, 2025.

When the group went outside, the witness said Fagan exited a vehicle while brandishing a firearm. Fagan was “freaking out” and demanding to know who the two men with the witness and victim were.

The witness said Fagan pointed the gun at all of them, but primarily the two men.

“I was scared at first, but (the victim) pushed (Fagan) away, so I thought she was handling it,” the witness said.

The witness told the jury she turned her back to the victim and Fagan to direct the two men back inside DJ’s when the victim was forced into Fagan’s vehicle. The witness wasn’t able to get in contact with the victim and was “worried for her safety.”

McCormick then showed screenshots of messages between Fagan and the witness, in which Fagan repeatedly asked who the two men were and the witness responding that he needed to grow up and asking where the victim was. When the witness was ultimately reunited with the victim, she said her nose was “black and blue” and bloody.

Former Tyrone police officer Jeffrey Barr also testified, saying he was accompanied by about five or six other officers in trying to locate Fagan. Working on a tip, the officers went to a residence and saw an individual leaving. When officers asked the individual if Fagan was inside, they said yes.

Barr said he knocked on the door and waited “minutes” for Fagan to answer. Looking through the door’s glass panels, Barr said he saw the home’s back door standing ajar, meaning Fagan “had fled.”

Two other officers subsequently located Fagan in the residence’s detached garage, Barr said. A handgun was found near Fagan and taken into evidence.

Through questioning by Assistant District Attorney Nicholas Mays, Barr said he told Fagan about the felony kidnapping charge. Fagan then told Barr that the victim had gotten into his vehicle “voluntarily.”

“He said he had freaked out on her for being with two other men and that she had assaulted him,” Barr said.

When asked by Mays if Fagan had any visible injuries, Barr said no and that he also didn’t request medical attention.

On cross-examination, defense attorney Robert Donaldson asked if Fagan resisted when he was apprehended, to which Barr said no. Barr also confirmed that the firearm located near Fagan was not concealed and was sitting on a table just inside the garage door.

Testimony is expected to continue 8:30 a.m. today in courtroom one of the Blair County Courthouse, with Judge Paula M. Aigner presiding.

Mirror Staff Writer Rachel Foor-Musselman is at 814-946-7458.