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Cops report two road rage incidents minutes apart on East Side
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Police said there were two separate road-rage incidents within minutes of each other Wednesday afternoon on the East Side.
Theaplus Redmond, 33, of Rosewood Lane, was booked into the Mahoning County jail on two counts of felonious assault after he was arrested about 1:10 p.m. Reports said he ran a car down and rammed it after the car collided with his SUV on Rosewood Lane.
Reports said Redmond told police the car had collided with his and then drove off, and he drove after it.
The driver of the other car also admitted colliding with the SUV, reports said. She told police she left after the first collision because she had to drop off her 8-year-old son to catch a school bus.
Reports said her car was pushed off the road with considerable force, and Redmond’s SUV ended up smashing into a tree, which is why he was taken into custody, reports said.
There were no injuries. Besides Redmond being arrested, the driver of the other car was issued a citation for a hit-and-run violation.
About the same time, police also were responding to a fight in the 200 block of North Center Street with two vehicles involved, one driven by Brendalize Corchado, 32, of Whitman Lane. Reports said both drivers had been driving aggressively toward each other for several blocks, until a car with a man and a woman inside was blocked off by a car driven by the boyfriend of Corchado. Corchado also blocked off the car with her vehicle so that it was boxed in.
When officers arrived, the couple in the car told police Corchado got out of her vehicle, walked over to the passenger’s side of the car belonging to the couple, then began scratching and clawing at the woman. The man in the driver’s seat got out of his car, but Corchado’s boyfriend got out of his car and approached the man with a machete. The man then got back in his car and maneuvered his way out of the makeshift roadblock, and waited for police.
Reports said Corchado told police she did not start a physical altercation, but reports said the passenger in the other car had several scratches and Corchado had only one. Corchado was given a citation for assault and released on the scene with a court date.
Later in the day on the South Side, Leonard Ellis Jr., 21, was arrested on charges of felonious assault and being a felon in possession of a firearm after reports said he and another driver had cut each other off and chased each other to the 800 block of Palmer Avenue, where several shots were fired. Witnesses told police Ellis fired a shot in the ground before driving to a home on Palmer Avenue, where he was found along with a gun.
Redmond and Ellis are both expected to be arraigned in municipal court today.