Jonah ShropshireCuyahoga County jail
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland man is accused of robbing and pistol-whipping a couple near Cleveland State University.
Jonah Shropshire, 19, is charged with aggravated robbery in the incident, which happened Sunday on East 30th Street near the Chester Avenue exit from I-90.
Five men approached a 38-year-old man and his 40-year-old girlfriend at about 10 p.m. as they walked through the parking lot of University Commons Apartments, according to a Cleveland police report. The man was escorting the woman to her job on Chester Avenue at the time, police say.
The group approached the couple from behind, and one robber pistol-whipped the man in the back of his head. The victim fell to the ground. The group ordered the pair to empty their pockets, then pistol-whipped the man a second time, the report says.
Another robber pointed a gun at the woman’s face, then punched her in head when she tried to knock the gun from his grip, the report says.
The group eventually ran off when the woman screamed for help, police say.
The man’s phone fell to the ground at some point during the struggle, but neither he nor police were able to find it.
The woman was taken to St. Vincent Charity Medical Center for treatment of a possibly broken nose, police say.
As officers drove her boyfriend to the hospital to visit her, he spotted Shropshire at a bus stop near East 30th Street and Euclid Avenue and identified him as one of the robbers.
Police pulled over and arrested Shropshire, who said he had nothing to do with the robbery and was only walking in the area with four friends, the report says.
Shropshire was held in jail then charged on Tuesday, court records say. He appeared for arraignment Wednesday, where a judge set his bond at $20,000 and bound his case over to a Cuyahoga County grand jury.
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