(WJET/WFXP) — Keegan Baker, the Erie man convicted of setting fire to his parents’ home, then getting into a shootout with police, has been charged again. This time for allegedly asking another inmate to commit an armed robbery at his mother’s home.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office announced soliciting kidnapping, robbery, and assault charges against 28-year-old Keegan Baker on Tuesday following an investigation.
Suspect injured in police shootout faces attempted murder, arson and other charges
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said Baker asked another inmate at SCI Forest to use his outside contacts to break into his mother’s Erie County home to steal $68,000, along with having her and his stepfather tied up and tased.
Sunday said that in return for the act, Baker agreed to give the other inmate and anyone else involved a cut of the $68,000, but rather than agree to the act, Sunday said the inmate informed prison staff about it, and an investigation ensued.
Erie man sentenced to prison for 2023 house fire, shootout with police
Baker is currently serving 15-30 years in prison for setting fire to his mother’s and stepfather’s Millcreek Township home before getting into a shootout with police and getting shot several times in the process…