On Thursday, Oleh Zhownirovych pleaded no-contest and was found guilty of aggravated battery and intentional harm and battery after he choked a 4-month-old baby in a checkout line at an Overland Park Walmart in mid-October.The prosecutor dismissed the aggravated kidnapping charge against Zhownirovych, who is 54 and from Clifton, N.J. Zhownirovych has a sentencing hearing scheduled for Jan. 25.In October, authorities said Zhownirovych came up to a woman while she was in the checkout line and started choking the infant, who was in her car seat in the shopping cart.Police said the mother started screaming and the man stopped. Other people in the store ran to the woman’s aid, pinning the man down until officers arrived.

On Thursday, Oleh Zhownirovych pleaded no-contest and was found guilty of aggravated battery and intentional harm and battery after he choked a 4-month-old baby in a checkout line at an Overland Park Walmart in mid-October.

The prosecutor dismissed the aggravated kidnapping charge against Zhownirovych, who is 54 and from Clifton, N.J. Zhownirovych has a sentencing hearing scheduled for Jan. 25.

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In October, authorities said Zhownirovych came up to a woman while she was in the checkout line and started choking the infant, who was in her car seat in the shopping cart.

Police said the mother started screaming and the man stopped. Other people in the store ran to the woman’s aid, pinning the man down until officers arrived.