Pleasant Hill shooting death suspect accused of holding woman hostage in Michigan

By DEAN REA/Correspondent/The Herald — Police say they don’t know why a man from Michigan was in Oregon at the time a woman was shot to death in Pleasant Hill.

Andrew Paul Geronimi, 34, was booked into the Lane County Jail on first-degree charges of murder, assault and burglary after being arrested at the scene where Caelen Bosisto, 30, was shot and died, and her husband, Staton, 34, was injured by a gunshot wound shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday.

Lane County sheriff’s deputies spotted Geronimi, armed with a handgun, hiding in bushes next to the driveway where the incident occurred on Hilltop Drive. He was arrested at the scene.

Geronimi was wanted in Michigan after he failed to appear by Zoom for a May 17 pre-trial conference with a Circuit Court judge, who issued a bench warrant for his arrest.

Geronimi’s problems with the law were reported by The Daily News in Norway, Mich.

He was accused in Dickinson County after allegedly keeping a woman hostage in January and was charged with unlawful imprisonment, a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison; assault with a dangerous weapon, a four-year felony; and two counts of assaulting, resisting or obstructing a police officer, a two-year felony.

According to the criminal complaint, Norway police officers responded Jan. 19 to a report that Geronimi would not let a woman leave her residence. She eventually was released, a felony warrant was authorized and a $15,000 cash bond was set. Geronimi waived his preliminary hearing, and the case was bound over to a circuit court. The defendant bonded out of jail on March 18.

The newspaper then reported that Geronimi attended a number of pre-trial conferences by phone because of the coronavirus pandemic but failed to appear for the May 17 session. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest.

Geronimi, who is lodged at the Lane County Jail in Eugene, faces three charges, including first-degree murder, which is defined as a felony punishable by up to life in prison without the possibility of parole and prohibits his release from jail on bail or bond.