Stalking charge not enough to keep man away from woman

A 37-year-old Port Washington man accused of telling the woman he is charged with stalking that he is the second coming of the Lord and he wants her by his side when Armageddon happens was charged with another felony for showing up at her home last week after he had been ordered not to have contact with her.

Shannon A. Cain was charged in November with stalking and two counts of violating a temporary restraining order and ordered not to have contact with the Port Washington woman.

Cain, who posted $7,500 bail to be released from jail on Dec. 20, appeared at the woman’s home at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, and told her he just wanted to work things out with her even though they had never been in a relationship and she is afraid of him, according to criminal complaints.

He now faces two additional charges — felony bail jumping and another count of violating a restraining order.

On Nov. 18, the woman went to the Port Washington Police Station to report that Cain was harassing her. She said she and Cain work together at a Port Washington company and spoke frequently.

But after a few weeks, she said, Cain began making her uncomfortable by talking about Armageddon and, calling himself the second-coming of the Lord, said he wanted the woman beside him “to go forth in the universe,” according to the complaint filed in November.

The woman said that at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 17, Cain showed up at her home, which she thought was weird and scary because she had never given him her address or permission to be at her house. He was talking about Armageddon again, but after being asked by the woman to leave, he did. About two hours later, however, the woman’s dogs began barking and she looked outside to see Cain standing on her porch. The woman said she told him to leave and not come back, the complaint states.

The woman said she reported the incident to the human resources department of the company she and Cain worked for, saying she didn’t want to work with him any longer, then reported the incident to authorities. Cain was warned by a police officer not to have contact with the woman, according to the complaint.

On Nov. 18, the woman petitioned the court for, and was granted, a temporary restraining order prohibiting Cain from harassing her or having contact with her and ordering him to stay at least 300 feet away from her. An Ozaukee County sheriff’s deputy served Cain with a copy of the restraining order at 11:40 a.m. Nov. 19.

But less than a week later, the woman told authorities that she received a Facebook message from a person she didn’t know who asked if she knew Cain and if she was aware he was posting things about her in a chat group on Discord. The person included screenshots of some of the messages posted by Cain, who in one of them wrote that he drove past the woman’s house on Nov. 23 when she would have been home, the complaint states.

On Nov. 25,  a co-worker of the woman called police to report that she saw Cain put roses on the woman’s vehicle at work. Officers went to Cain’s apartment, detained him and asked if he knew why they were there. He said he knew, adding, “I guess I’ll spend the holiday weekend in jail,” referring to Thanksgiving, according to the complaint.

Cain admitted posting messages about the woman on Discord, including some that compared her to another woman with whom he felt a similar emotional connection, which he called “history repeating itself,” the complaint states.

He also admitted to driving past the woman’s house on Nov. 23 and going to her place of employment on Nov. 25 to put flowers and “heartfelt apology notes” on her vehicle because he had a “sixth sense” feeling that she was in danger and because he felt emotionally drawn to her, according to the complaint.

An officer went to the woman’s workplace and found flowers and an envelope that contained two cards on her vehicle. A message on the envelope read, “To my one and only true love, my dear, my queen, I am sorry that I openly compared you to another,” the complaint states.

The cards included messages about sharing a divine love with the woman, Cain spending his days making things up to her and a pledge that he will “be where you need me to be in every moment,” according to the complaint.

Cain was arrested and held in jail until Dec. 20. On Feb. 7, he went to the woman’s home and knocked on her door. The woman said she gestured “no” to Cain and told him to leave, then her boyfriend went outside to document his presence at the house, according to the complaint filed last week.

The woman said she heard Cain say he just wanted to work things out with her before he drove away. An officer who arrived at the house shortly after Cain left noted that the woman was shaking she was so scared.

Cain was pulled over by a Saukville police officer a short time later and said something compelled him to go to the woman’s home and that he loved her. As he was being taken to jail, Cain said he needed to have a relationship with the woman, the complaint states.

During a Feb. 5 court hearing, Ozaukee County Circuit Judge Sandy Williams set Cain’s bail at $75,000, which he had not posted as of earlier this week.