The Monroe County prosecutor filed a murder charge against a Bloomington woman Friday after the man she is alleged to have beaten and stabbed died this week.
After originally filing attempted murder as the most serious charge, prosecutors amended the charges against Briley Shayne Turner, 25, to murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery in connection with an incident August 18.
Police said they responded to a report of a male screaming for help in an apartment. They found a tire tool with a metal spike and a baseball bat, both bloody. The victim, Michael Ray Hodge, 36, went to the emergency room and was able to give a statement to police.
Hodge said he and Turner were going to take a shower when she attacked him, according to the probable cause affidavit. He told police there was no argument or reason for the violence.
Police said that, at the apartment, Turner told an officer she was defending herself.
The amended affidavit said that around 5 p.m. Wednesday, Hodge’s family requested that IU Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, where he was transported after the alleged attack, take him off a ventilator. He died at 7:23 p.m.
An autopsy determined that he died of “multiple sharp force and blunt force traumatic injuries” and that the cause of death was homicide.
