Prosecutors in Oklahoma are clearing the way for 25-year-old Nathan Todd Shaw to be returned to Pennsylvania.
Shaw has been called “a person of interest” in the stabbing death of six-year-old Jared Klein on Dec. 26. Klein’s mother and Shaw’s ex-girlfriend, Christina Muoio, was beaten at her Tyrone residence that same night and hospitalized as a result of her injuries. Shaw is also the father of Muoio’s two-year-old daughter.
Shaw allegedly left the state using Muoio’s vehicle. He was apprehended in Kay County, OK on Dec. 28 after leading police there on a high-speed chase. He crashed the car and fled on foot before being taken into custody.
Prosecutors in Oklahoma charged him with eluding an officer/endangering others, reckless driving and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle according to an affidavit of probable cause filed in an Oklahoma district court. Shaw was held on $1 million bond stemming from those charges.
No one including Shaw has been named as a suspect or charged in the Tyrone crimes. However, Shaw is wanted on a parole violation in Pennsylvania. He was paroled in early December after serving less than a year in a Chester, PA prison for theft and simple assault.
Blair County prosecutors and their counterparts in Oklahoma held discussions concerning Shaw yesterday. According to assistant Kay County DA Will Clark, charges against Shaw in Oklahoma will be dropped to allow him to be returned to Pennsylvania. He said depending on what happens to Shaw in Pennsylvania, prosecutors in Oklahoma could refile charges later.
He said a decision on when Shaw might be returned to Pennsylvania could happen within the next day or two. He said Shaw’s return would happen soon after that.
Tyrone Police Chief Joseph Beachem said arrangements have been made to retrieve the stolen vehicle. Authorities were to leave today to get the car, according to Beachem. Plans call for Shaw to be returned to Pennsylvania by state parole officials.
A Mass of Christian Burial for the deceased boy, Jared Klein, was scheduled for noon today at the St. Matthew Catholic Church in Tyrone. Klein attended St. Matthew Elementary School and was a first grade student.
The school’s principal Jamie DiDomenico said the school offered counseling for parents and for students. The school had been in holiday recess at the time of Jared’s death. Students returned to class on Monday.
DiDomenico said, “The counseling was useful.”
She noted, “The kids were better off emotionally than expected.”
She said one reason might have been that the children were able to spend time with their parents for several days prior to returning to school after the holidays.
DiDomenico said plans called for students who wanted to attend today’s mass to do so. She said parents could have their children “opt out” if they desired. In addition to Jared’s first and second grade classmates, students in the third through sixth grade in the church choir were scheduled to sing at today’s mass.
St. Matthew has about 50 students in the first through six-grade and about 20 children who attend preschool and kindergarten.
DiDomenico said the students have made a memory box in honor of Jared. They have put together some of Jared’s papers and pictures and have also drawn pictures, made cards and notes that will be given to Jared’s family in his memory.
Jared Klein who would have turned seven-years-old on Friday was born in Chester, PA in 1999. DiDomenico said plans call for a service in the Philadelphia area on Thursday. An obituary previously published in The Daily Herald said Klein would be buried at a cemetery in Langhorne, PA.
Muoio is from the Philadelphia area and Jared’s father, Timothy Klein, still lives in Chester.
DiDomenico said persons wishing to make donations to the family could do so through the church or school. She could not confirm any other fundraising plans.
