Call police, seek treatment if you had sex with HIV-positive Randal Brown

YOUNGSTOWN — Officials are asking that anyone who has had intimate relations with a 23-year-old HIV-positive man charged with having unprotected sex with a local woman seek medical treatment and contact police.

Randal Brown, 22, is in Mahoning County jail on a $1 million bond. He has been charged with one count of felonious assault after authorities say he had unprotected sex with a girlfriend knowing he is HIV positive.

Brown was arrested earlier this week. Police found him working and living in North Carolina, where he fled after the felonious assault complaint was filed against him Aug. 30.

According to police, Brown had been romantically involved with the 20-year-old college student since December 2010. He reportedly had been having sex with the woman without revealing his health status.

The woman reportedly became ill in this July. It was shortly after she became ill that Brown told her of his AIDS status, saying that he had been born with the illness and has known of is status since he was 15.

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