City man pleads guilty to assault in attack on woman
YOUNGSTOWN — Randolph Jeter Sr., 37, of Wesley Avenue pleaded guilty to felony robbery and misdemeanor assault and aggravated menacing Monday, avoiding the trial that was set for Monday morning in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Jeter could get about eight years in prison when he is sentenced at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 4.
The charges stemmed from an Oct. 8, 2024, incident at a home in the 4000 block of South Avenue, south of Midlothian Boulevard in Boardman, in which a woman said she had been having ongoing issues with Jeter, who she called her “stalker / ex-boyfriend.”
She said Jeter became “obsessed with her” after meeting her through her cousin. Jeter fled the scene before officers arrived. The victim was “visibly distraught and had fresh redness / swelling to the left side of her face,” a Boardman police report states.
She said Jeter walked into the home of her friend “unannounced” “and began assaulting her.” She said Jeter hit her in the face with a closed fist, threw her to the ground and began “stomping on her head with his foot.”
She said he did that several times. She had a burst blood vessel in her right eye, the report states. Boardman fire and Lane ambulance personnel treated her at the scene, but she refused further treatment and said she would seek medical attention at the hospital later.
She told officers that Jeter had threatened her while assaulting her, telling her he was going to “kill everyone she knows.” He also tore off her shirt and stole her prescription medication while she was on the ground after the assault, the report states.
Officers determined that Jeter had stolen 38 of her prescription pills.
The report states that the victim had filed three reports against Jeter within the previous nine months involving Jeter assaulting her. Officers detained that at the time, Jeter had one outstanding warrant for assault through Youngstown Municipal Court.
Youngstown officers went to Jeter’s home on Wesley Avenue on the new charges. Jeter briefly barricaded himself inside his home but was taken into custody.
According to Youngstown Municipal Court records, Jeter was charged with misdemeanor assault March 14, 2024, for a Feb. 27, 2024, incident, and was arraigned on the charge Oct 9, 2024.
But on Feb. 10, 2024, the charge was dismissed because the alleged victim had not attended a trial set for that day or any previous hearings, according to court documents.
It is not known whether the victim in that case is the same victim as the one on the Boardman case.