Tuesday, August 17, 1999
Youth stabbed in Pleasant Ridge
Man charged with felonious assault after altercation
BY EARNEST WINSTON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
As they usually did when they went swimming, 14-year-old Christopher Burroughs and relatives stopped by Burger King and United Dairy Farmers in Pleasant Ridge on Sunday afternoon.
But unlike previous trips, the youths ran into trouble this time.
It all started shortly before 3:45 p.m., when Christopher, his brother and other relatives left Everybody's Records on Montgomery Road. Little did they know they were being followed.
Trailing them was Reginald Randolph, 33. But the Pleasant Ridge man's behavior wasn't uncommon at all, said an employee at Everybody's Records, who asked not to be named.
Mr. Randolph came to the record store about three times a day. While there, he harassed customers and talked to himself. Not once did he buy anything, the employee said.
After leaving the record store Sunday, Mr. Randolph met up with the youths at the UDF, 3180 Woodford Road. Apparently, that's when he plunged forward at some of the youths, Christopher Burroughs Sr. of Pleasant Ridge said Monday.
The incident eventually escalated, and ended with Mr. Randolph behind bars, charged with felonious assault. Police say he stabbed Christopher twice. Mr. Burroughs said his son was stabbed in the chest and the hip. His condition was upgraded to fair Mondayat Children's Hospital Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Mr. Randolph was arrested without incident at a nearby store, bleeding and holding a knife in his hand.
He was treated for an apparent self-inflicted wound at University Hospital. He was released just in time for his arraignment Monday, where bond was set at $50,000 cash.
Mr. Burroughs said his 14-year-old son told him that Mr. Randolph began cursing at him and his 11-year-old brother outside the UDF. Christopher eventually told Mr. Randolph he shouldn't be cursing at his brother, Mr. Burroughs said, and the youths walked off.
That's when Mr. Randolph resumed cursing, Mr. Burroughs said. He then ran behind Christopher and began stabbing him, the father said Monday at his son's bedside.
Mr. Burroughs said his son never argued with Mr. Randolph. “I don't want it to seem like my son was out here trying to fight a grown man,” he said.
Customers who were pumping gas ran over to stop Christopher from bleeding, Mr. Burroughs said.
Mr. Burroughs said his boys never saw Mr. Randolph before Sunday's incident. “We grew up in that neighborhood. I know everybody in that neighborhood,” Mr. Burroughs said.
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