A 25-year-old Indiana woman may be in more serious trouble because the victim in the case passed away weeks after she allegedly attacked the man with a bat and repeatedly stabbed him with a knife and a “tire plug tool” out of self-defense as he was expecting to take a shower with her.
According to court records, Briley Shayne Turner acknowledged that on August 18 in an apartment in Bloomington, she had attacked 36-year-old Michael Hodge.
She was discovered by police covered in blood and laying on a couch, and she then said, “I had to defend myself, dude.” However, detectives claimed that the overwhelming weight of the evidence suggested an attempted murder.
The Kinser Flats apartment where Hodge was repeatedly stabbed and battered in a bathroom with a baseball bat had music playing, according to the Bloomington Police Department.
According to a probable cause document, police discovered a baseball bat left leaning against a wall, a bloody kitchen knife, and a “black-handled tire plug tool with a metal spike on it” in the living room, bathroom, and kitchen.
“During officers initial observations of the bathroom, it was determined that there was a bloody plastic handle to a kitchen knife with the metal knife portion missing near the bathtub. Additionally, there was a bloody black-handled tire plug tool with a metal spike on it located on the floor nearest to the sink,” according to the court documents. “Lastly, in the main living room of the apartment, to the right of the main door, was a bloody baseball bat leaning against the wall.”
The victim lay “on the bathroom floor with multiple stab wounds” to his chest, rib cage, neck, quad, and “upper right buttock,” with part of the knife “broken off inside of [his] body,” according to the police, who claimed to have heard the victim and Turner yelling “help” as they entered the house. They also said that the suspect was relaxing on a living room couch “next to her phone, covered in blood.” Documents also said that he suffered a broken arm.
According to papers, Hodge said to police that Turner had struck him without warning when they “were about to take a shower together.”
“After being struck with the baseball bat, [the victim] advised Briley began stabbing him all over his body,” as per the affidavit. “[He] stated he tried to grab the knife as Briley was stabbing him in an attempt to stop the incident but only sustained a cut to his hands. [He] stated that there was no argument or reason for the attack.”
Turner, on the other hand, supposedly had an entirely different account of what happened, claiming that Hodge attempted to “shove stuff down my throat” and that she was forced to defend herself.
Turner had “many bruises covering her legs and on her sides,” according to the police, but they also noted that “[n]o new injuries appeared to be observed” from the day of the incident and that the bruises “appeared to be older due to the multiple colors of purple and yellow.”
When detectives attempted to question Turner, she was described as behaving erratically, occasionally hyperventilating, and “repeatedly making jerking motions with her extremities and loud moaning and whimpering noises.”
Turner allegedly said Hodge “tried to get me” at the scene.
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“He f—ing tried … he f—ing held me down, and he tried to put that stuff down my throat,” Turner stated. “I don’t know what he put in my throat, and I had to defend myself, dude. I tried to defend myself.”
Turner was facing multiple drug possession cases in the past few years, including one for meth, and a pending burglary of a home prosecution resulting from an incident on August 6, according to court documents.
Prosecutors in Monroe County have charged Turner with attempted murder and aggravated violence thus far. However, since Hodge’s death was apparently determined to be a homicide, the charges might now be elevated to murder.
On October 7, Turner’s birthday, a pretrial session was scheduled for that morning.
