A Brandon Township man and woman suspected of assaulting a man in his home with a baseball bat on the night of May 3 were in 52-2 District Court on Monday.
Shelly Klanke pleaded guilty to felony charges of assault with a dangerous weapon before Judge Dana Fortinberry. She will be sentenced on Nov. 4 at 8:30 a.m. before Circuit Court Judge Steven Andrews. Michael Boadway waived his right to the hearing and will bound over to Circuit Court Oct. 7, also before Judge Steven Andrews. Both face a four-year felony. Boadway, 47, was arrested on July 28 and Shelly Klanke, 43, was arrested Aug. 4, both on charges of aggravated assault.
According to Oakland County Sheriff’s reports, deputies from the Brandon Substation responded to the 1000 block of Hummer Lake Road at 12:15 a.m.after a report of a home invasion.
According to reports, homeowner Gary Klanke, the husband of Shelly, was in his downstairs bedroom at about 11:30 a.m. when he was awakened by the sound of his truck alarm. When Gary went out the door at the back of his home to shut off his truck alarm, he saw a man and woman in the backyard. The woman, dressed in a white shirt and pants, left the scene while the man crawled under Klanke’s deck area, according to the report. Gary allegedly ran back inside the house to call 9-1-1 and said he locked the door behind him. As Gary returned to his bedroom to call deputies, the suspect, Boadway, allegedly followed him into the home and proceeded to beat him with a baseball bat.
Klanke’s 16-year-old son was sleeping in the bedroom next to his father’s and heard the commotion in the hallway. The youth allegedly hit Boadway in the face with his fist, then took the baseball bat from him. The youth beat Boadway about the body, while Gary pinned him down until deputies arrived.
Boadway was taken to Genesys Medical Center in Grand Blanc where he was treated for his injuries.
Boadway later told deputies that he and Shelly Klanke, Gary’s wife, had conspired to ‘rough up the husband a little,? according to sheriff’s deputies? reports. Gary Klanke claims he saw his wife out by his pickup truck at the time the alarm was going off and suspects his wife allowed Boadway into the house by unlocking the door.
In the report, Shelly Klanke claims she was upstairs in the home during the incident and had only met Boadway at a local business.