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Three Madison residents who already face homicide charges in Columbia County for a man’s shooting death were also charged Friday in Dane County, two of them with kidnapping the man before his death.

Jesse J. Freiberg, 28, and Laura M. Johnson, 38, were each charged with kidnapping Manuel M. Martinez, 68, of Madison, and taking him to the Portage area. They were also charged with attempted armed robbery.

The third person, Jakenya J. Patty, 21, was charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, for allegedly trying to run over Freiberg with Martinez’s SUV during an argument on Williamson Street on June 15, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.

Last week, Freiberg, Johnson and Patty were charged with being parties to first-degree intentional homicide for the shooting death of Martinez, whose body was found near a road west of Portage. A criminal complaint filed in Columbia County Circuit Court states Freiberg told police he shot Martinez at the urging of Johnson and Patty, after Martinez had tried to escape from them.

Freiberg and Johnson were jailed on $250,000 bail after appearing in court Friday, while Patty’s bail was set at $150,000.

According to the complaint filed Friday:

Police were called to Few and Williamson streets early on June 15 for a couple fighting. An officer spotted a Jeep Patriot go onto a sidewalk toward a man, picking up speed. The man, later identified as Freiberg, narrowly missed being struck, but the Jeep struck a home in the 400 block of South Ingersoll Street.

The driver, Patty, was arrested but told police Frieberg had tried to kill someone the night before. At her direction, police found a bag in the Jeep that contained a gun.

Patty told police about being at the apartment of a friend of Freiberg’s, later identified as Johnson, at Porchlight in the 300 block of North Brooks Street. There was a man at the apartment, later identified as Martinez, and Johnson was demanding money she said he owed her. Patty told police Johnson beat the man “half to death.”

Martinez, tied up, was driven in his own SUV while Johnson burned him, Patty told police.

Freiberg was found by police after the Williamson Street incident, said he didn’t know where he and Patty got the Jeep, but said they are homeless and had been sleeping in it.

Investigating the possible kidnapping of Martinez, police spoke with a woman at the Porchlight apartments who said that a few days earlier she had been woken up about 3:30 a.m. by a woman, likely Johnson, who was yelling, “Give me my drugs! Give me my money!”

When the woman opened her apartment door, she told police, she saw Johnson in the hall, holding a man in a chokehold, trying to drag him back into her apartment. She said Johnson was also stabbing the man with a box cutter. She said his blood was “all over the place.”

The woman said she didn’t call police because she was terrified of Johnson.

The woman said she saw Johnson drag the man toward the elevator, yelling, “does someone want to make $200?” She also heard Johnson yelling for someone to grab the man’s wallet.

Interviewed by police, Patty also described the attack on Martinez at Johnson’s apartment. She said Johnson was hitting the man with a metal bar and demanding money from him.

Later, after she and Freiberg had tried to leave, they ended up going with Johnson and Martinez to use Martinez’s debit card. Patty drove Martinez’s Jeep, while Johnson was in the back seat with Martinez. At one point, she said, they stopped for gas, and Johnson went through all of the cards in Martinez’s wallet. He continued to tell Johnson he didn’t have any money.

Johnson said they were going to drive around until Martinez gave her some money. Patty, now in the passenger seat while Freiberg drove, said she tried to calm Johnson down. She said Johnson grabbed Freiberg’s gun from his backpack. Later, Martinez tried to get the gun away from Johnson, Patty said, and begged her not to shoot him.

During the struggle, Johnson dropped the gun on the floor, and Freiberg grabbed it and put it on his lap. They ended up in Portage, Patty said, then went down a gravel road until they ended up near a ditch with water in it.

They got Martinez out of the car, Patty told police, and Johnson told Martinez, “Since you’re not going to give me what I’m asking, I’m going to off your (expletive).”

Patty told police she was in the Jeep, while Johnson, Martinez and Freiberg were outside. She heard Johnson continuing to yell at Martinez, then she heard a gunshot. She said she saw Martinez trying to go into the water, as Johnson shined her cellphone light on him. She said Freiberg then fired the gun.

Kayla Soren and Diego Frankel enjoy a breath of spring during a visit beneath a magnolia tree at the UW Arboretum in Madison, Wis. Monday, May 9, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

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Lottie Stenjem arranges an assortment of flowers to put into vases that will be shipped out to retailers, at ERI Floral in Stoughton, Wis., Monday, May 2, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

Chris Wallom, a facilities worker with the Wisconsin Department of Administration, harvests tulips from the grounds of the Wisconsin State Capitol as workers prepare the beds for incoming arrays of annuals in Madison, Wis. Monday, May 16, 2022. Each spring, following the short-lived growth period for the flowers, workers dig up the bulbs and make them available on a first-come, first-serve basis to residents looking to enhance their own properties for the following year. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

Uri Andrews, of Middleton, holds up one of his 4-year-old twins, Benjamin, with Rafael, 2, bottom, to catch a whiff of the corpse flower, Amorphophallus titanum, that bloomed after reaching a heigh of just under 68-inches, at Olbrich Botanical Gardens' Bolz Conservatory in Madison, Wis., Thursday, May 5, 2022. The plant, which was a donation from UW-Madison's D.C. Smith Greenhouse in 2006, last bloomed in 2010 to a height of 6-feet. Corpse flowers bloom four to five times on average during their 40-year lifespan. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

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Looking forward to the birth of their second child in July, Aws Albarghouthi captures photographs of his wife, Maria Zarzalejo, during an afternoon visit to Vilas Park in Madison, Wis. Tuesday, May 17, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

Brynn Wozniak and Ethan Cash, at right, both UW-Madison students, sit in the grass at Lisa Link Peace Park as they listen to the band LINE during the Madison Night Market in Madison, Wis., Thursday, May 12, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

Continuing an annual tradition, graduates of UW-Madison pose for photos with the statue of Abraham Lincoln on Bascom Hill as they celebrate the conferring of their degrees on the campus in Madison, Wis. Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Enjoying an up-close look at the sculpture is School of Business graduate Danielle Lacke. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

UW-Madison graduating students, from left, Michael Walsh, Michael Burns, Jeremiah Clark and Noah Prudlo play a game of beer dice outside their fraternity, Pi Lambda Phi, before attending the spring commencement ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wis., Saturday, May 14, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

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Village of Lone Rock, Wis. worker Haydn Walsh organizes banners commemorating the military service careers of family members from the region as the village continues an annual tradition of honoring them with displays throughout the village from Memorial Day through July 4 Thursday, May 26, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

Sisters, from left, Lydia Scovill and Charlette place flags at the gravesite of their great grandfather, who served as a Marine in World War II, at Roselawn Memorial Cemetery in Monona, Wis., Monday, May 30, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL

Visitors use a telescope, that was installed in 1879, to see the star Arcturus during one of the free public observing days at Washburn Observatory at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, May 18, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

Cyclists make their way into a 3/4-mile-long tunnel along the Elroy-Sparta State Trail near the village of Norwalk, Wis. Wednesday, May 11, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

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Sun Prairie's Miles Adkins celebrates clearing the bar in pole vault during the WIAA Division 1 Sectional in Sun Prairie, Wis., Thursday, May 26, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL

Wisconsin Heights Barneveld's Lexi Pulcine, right, wins the 100 meter hurdles as Belleville's Alexandra Atwell falls over the finish line during the Capital Conference Championships at Lodi High School in Lodi, Wis., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL

Wisconsin catcher Christaana Angelopulos tags out Michigan's Lexie Blair at the Goodman Softball Complex in Madison, Wis., Friday, May 6, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL

Madison East High School students, including senior Harnish VanOers, center, freshman Carina Caspar, right, and sophomore Oscar Mora, at left, walk on East Washington Avenue to the state Capitol from school in support of immigrant rights to drivers licenses in Madison, Wis., Monday, May 2, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

Demonstrators protest outside the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, May 3, 2022. A leaked draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court intends to overturn the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL

Volunteers, from left, Mark Thomas, Alysha Clark, Joy Morgen, Anne Habel and Jered Hoff place tombstones along Atwood Avenue at Olbrich Park signifying the U.S. military lives lost since 2001, as part of the Veterans for Peace Memorial Mile display, in Madison, Wis., Saturday, May 28, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL

Alex Rose, left, and Jasmine Devant of Jefferson, Wis. take in the sunset from atop an historic Native American earthen platform mound at Aztalan State Park in Aztalan, Wis. Monday, May 16, 2022. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

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