This undated driver's license photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation shows Tierne Ewing of West Finley Township, Pa. Pennsylvania State Police say Kevin Ewing, a man free on bond... (Associated Press) 
 
 PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man free on bond while awaiting trial on charges he abducted and beat his wife while holding her captive for nearly two weeks earlier this summer kidnapped her again Tuesday and is on the run, state police said. 
 
 Kevin Ewing, 47, abducted his wife, Tierne, at gunpoint at about 12:30 a.m. from a residence in West Finley Township, about 50 miles southwest of Pittsburgh along the West Virginia border. 
 
 A car the couple was believed to be riding in was found abandoned in a wooded area of West Finley at about 9 a.m. Troopers got a warrant to search the car but wouldn't immediately say what they found, said Trooper Stefani Lucas, a state police spokeswoman. 
 
 Troopers weren't sure whether the couple was now on foot or got into another vehicle, Lucas said. 
 
 Ewing had been wearing an electronic ankle bracelet to confine him to his home since he posted $100,000 bail on the earlier charges July 11. 
 
 According to county adult probation officials, such devices can be programmed to provide GPS information but only if the court orders that. That wasn't ordered in Ewing's case, so his bracelet merely sends out a signal to authorities if he's left the house, they said. 
 
 Ewing was accused earlier of keeping his wife captive from June 26 to July 8. 
 
 Tierne Ewing, 48, had told authorities he beat and pistol-whipped her, spat on her, kept her hands tied with wire and branded her legs with a piece of hot metal, according to a criminal complaint charging him with kidnapping, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, false imprisonment and other crimes. 
 
 Tierne Ewing had staples closing a cut on her head — a home remedy, not hospital-administered — that she told police was caused when her husband hit her with a wooden gun stock. She had also been locked in a closet, police said. 
 
 Tierne Ewing escaped when her husband sent her into a credit union to withdraw money and she told tellers she was being held against her will and feared that her husband would kill her, the complaint said. 
 
 Bank officials called police, who found Kevin Ewing in the parking lot with a rifle, handgun and a knife, the complaint said. 
 
 Washington County District Attorney Eugene Vittone said his office had asked a judge to keep Ewing in jail after he unexpectedly posted bail last month. Prosecutors were concerned because of the seriousness of the charges, Vittone said. 
 
 But the judge allowed Ewing to remain free at home with the ankle bracelet. 
 
 State police warned Tuesday that Ewing should be considered armed and dangerous. His attorney said he didn't know where Ewing would have gone but was hoping for a good outcome. 
 
 "We just pray for everyone's safe return," Benjamin Goodwin told The Associated Press. ||||| Updated: Sep 2, 2016 - 4:43 PM 
 
 WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. - An investigation is ongoing after a man was able to remove his monitoring bracelet without police knowing, kidnapped his wife whom he abused in the past, and allegedly killed her in a remote area of Washington County. 
 
 Tierne Ewing, 48, was found dead Tuesday night in a West Finley Township barn with a gunshot wound to the head. Her estranged husband and accused abductor, 47-year-old Kevin Ewing, was found alive with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced brain-dead at UPMC Presbyterian hospital on Wednesday afternoon, officials said. The medical examiner said an autopsy is pending, as Kevin Ewing remained on a ventilator until a decision about organ donation was made. 
 
 Kevin Ewing was previously accused of holding Tierne Ewing hostage for 12 days and torturing her in July, when police said he repeatedly beat and burned her. She had a protection-from-abuse order against him, and online court records show an arrest warrant was issued for Kevin Ewing on kidnapping, terroristic threats, weapons charges and other crimes. 
 
 "She was scared to death of him. He threatened her all the time," said Tierne Ewing's father, Richard Kopko. "He beat her several times." 
 
 Police said from June 26 to July 8, Kevin Ewing held Tierne hostage, brutally beating her with a hammer and firearm; keeping a cord around her neck; duct-taping her mouth and hands; and repeatedly telling her he was going to kill her and kill himself. 
 
 North Strabane police arrested him on July 8 and Magistrate Mark Wilson set bail at $100,000. On July 11, Kevin Ewing posted bail. On July 15. Assistant District Attorney Kristin Clingerman filed an emergency motion asking to keep Kevin Ewing in jail by increasing his bail. But on July 19, Judge Gary Gilman denied the request and Kevin Ewing was released on $100,000 bail. 
 
 WPXI legal analyst Phil DiLucente looked at the case, and said he thinks the bail combined with the ankle monitoring system was set high enough. "The judge is not permitted to punish the defendant through high bail for the purpose of giving high bond and keeping him in jail," DiLucente said. Meanwhile, Clingerman said she fought heard to keep Tierne safe and that Tuesday night's outcome is exactly what she feared would ultimately happen. 
 
 “She was terrified, shaking, scared. She kept saying, ‘I know he’s going to kill me,'” Clingerman said. 
 
 Kevin Ewing had been wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, but police said he cut it off before he abducted Tierne Ewing. No one was notified when the ankle bracelet was cut, and Clingerman said once the monitoring is in place, it’s in the hands of Adult Probation Services. 
 
 Channel 11 attempted to contact officials at Washington County Adult Probation and the presiding judge, but a court administrator said he was the only person allowed to answer questions. 
 
 The administrator said the GPS uses a cellphone signal and the bracelet is a mix of plastic, rubber and metal banding that is not typically easy to remove. He said officials are not aware of any issues with the bracelet technology or its alert system. He said an alert is sent if the bracelet is tampered with or opened, but that alert is not instantaneous. 
 
 When asked specifically if Kevin Ewing’s bracelet worked, he said he could not comment on an open investigation. 
 
 "They put a bracelet on him and she's six miles away. Oh, give me a break. …Something’s wrong with the judging system in this country," Kopko said. 
 
 On Tuesday -- about two months after Kevin Ewing tortured his wife and held her hostage -- he allegedly abducted her from a home on Blockhouse Run Road in West Finley Township at about 12:30 a.m. Authorities said the home belongs to Kevin Ewing's parents and that Tierne Ewing had been staying with them. 
 
 Police said the pair were traveling in a gray Hyundai Veloster that was found earlier in the day by investigators. There was no sign of either Ewing at the time. 
 
 Around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, police converged on Walnut Valley Road in West Finley Township, where they believed Kevin Ewing was armed and hiding in a barn. As police arrived, they heard gunshots. When a SWAT team secured the area, investigators found the Ewings inside the barn. 
 
 Brenda McCullough, whose own daughter grew up with Tierne, said her heart breaks for Tierne’s parents, children and her two young grandchildren. 
 
 “I think the powers that be really need to start listening to people who have fears,” McCullough said. 
 
 At the scene on Wednesday, there were heavy tire tracks in the grass and latex gloves tossed in the gravel on Walnut Valley Road. Anthony Hinch, who lives in the area of the barn, said state police and a SWAT team were parked in his driveway an on the road for hours on Tuesday. Hinch said the area is so remote that a person cannot get to the barn without an all-terrain vehicle. 
 
 "He (Kevin Ewing) was from the area evidently so he brought her a mile and a half through the woods without being seen,” Hinch said. 
 
 Capt. David Heckman of the Pennsylvania State Police said police found a .22-caliber firearm, a sleeping bag and other camping items on the second floor of the barn, indicating Kevin Ewing planned to be there for a long time. 
 
 © 2017 Cox Media Group. ||||| FILE - This undated file driver's license photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation shows Kevin Ewing of West Finley Township, Pa. Tierne Ewing who was kidnapped at gunpoint by her... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - This undated file driver's license photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation shows Kevin Ewing of West Finley Township, Pa. Tierne Ewing who was kidnapped at gunpoint by her husband Kevin Ewing while he was under home confinement on charges he beat and abducted her two months... (Associated Press) 
 
 PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man accused of kidnapping his wife while he was under home confinement on charges he beat and abducted her two months ago has been declared brain dead following a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said Wednesday. 
 
 The Allegheny County medical examiner's office said Wednesday that it had been "advised of the brain death" of Kevin Ewing, 47, and an autopsy was pending as Ewing remained on a ventilator until a decision about organ donation was made. 
 
 Ewing was in an undisclosed hospital after shooting himself in a West Finley Township barn, officials said. His 48-year-old wife, Tierne Ewing, was found shot to death in the same barn after state troopers surrounded it, ending a daylong manhunt Tuesday. 
 
 Ewing abducted his wife at gunpoint from his mother's home, also in West Finley, near the West Virginia border, at about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, police said. Her car was found near a wooded area eight hours later, prompting a search that ended around 9 p.m. when police surrounded the nearby barn. 
 
 Tierne Ewing's parents have questioned the way authorities handled charges against Kevin Ewing in the earlier case. 
 
 Tierne Ewing told police her husband beat and pistol-whipped her, spat on her, kept her hands tied with wire or duct tape and imprisoned in their home, often with a gun to her head from June 26 to July 8. Kevin Ewing also branded her legs with a piece of hot metal, according to a criminal complaint. 
 
 Tierne Ewing had staples — a home remedy — closing a cut on her head that she told police was the result of her husband hitting her with a wooden gun stock. 
 
 She escaped when her husband forced her into a credit union to withdraw money, only to tell tellers of her ordeal and they called police. 
 
 Ewing unexpectedly posted $100,000 bond on July 11, so a prosecutor asked a judge to put him back in jail citing an unspecified history of domestic abuse and past injuries to his wife, Washington County District Attorney Eugene Vittone said. 
 
 The judge refused but did order Kevin Ewing confined to his mother's home, without weapons, and ordered him to have no contact with his wife. He was also made to wear an ankle bracelet that would alert authorities if he left the home. 
 
 Despite the court order, his wife had been living in an apartment in his mother's home for several days before she was abducted this week, investigators said. The mother, Rose Riggle, told police that her daughter-in-law had been visiting him at her house for weeks. 
 
 Hours before Ewing abducted his wife, Riggle heard them arguing then saw him with a black revolver that belonged to her ex-husband, investigators said. 
 
 Riggle told police that her son made his wife pack bags containing food and clothes and forced her to leave the house with him. When Riggle tried to intervene, her son pushed her down, the affidavit said. 
 
 He then cut off his electronic ankle bracelet and handed it to his mother before leaving, she told police. 
 
 Riggle, reached at home Wednesday by The Associated Press, said she was aware of the court-ordered restrictions her son faced, but she hung up when questioned about them. 
 
 Tierne Ewing's father told reporters on Tuesday that Kevin Ewing had harmed his daughter repeatedly in the 38 years the couple knew each other. 
 
 "She was scared to death of him. He threatened her all the time, and he beat her up several times," Richard Kopko said after authorities told him his daughter was dead. 
 
 Online court records show Kevin Ewing pleaded guilty to simple assault and spent more than seven months in jail for an April 2001 attack on his wife. 
 
 "She told me years ago, 'Dad, if you can't ever find me, I'll be buried on his dad's farm,'" Kopko said. (The barn where the couple was found wasn't on the father's farm.) 
 
 Kopko and his wife didn't answer repeated phone calls on Wednesday.
– A Pennsylvania man who was unexpectedly released on bail after being charged with kidnapping and beating his wife kidnapped her again, police say—and this time, she did not escape. Police say 48-year-old Tierne Ewing was found dead late Tuesday after being kidnapped for a second time by estranged husband Kevin Ewing, 47, WTAE reports. He forced his wife into a car at gunpoint Monday night, saying he "should have killed the victim and himself the first time," police say. The abandoned car was discovered Tuesday morning, sparking a massive search. Police tell WPXI that they heard gunshots as they approached a barn in West Finley Township late Tuesday. They found Tierne Ewing dead and Kevin Ewing injured from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was flown to a hospital for treatment. The AP reports that Ewing was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, and other crimes in July after his wife told police he had kept her captive for almost two weeks, during which he beat and pistol-whipped her, spat on her, and branded her legs with a piece of hot metal. She said she escaped after he sent her into a credit union to withdraw money and she alerted the tellers. Cops found him in the bank's parking lot with a rifle, handgun, and a knife. The local DA says he wanted Ewing to stay in jail but a judge freed him July 11 after he posted $100,000 bail. Ewing was ordered to wear an electronic ankle bracelet to confine him to his home—but probation officials say that even though the court could have called for a bracelet that provides GPS information, that didn't happen in this case.