West Park couple claims vicious attack could’ve been prevented if court had granted restraining order

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Cleveland police are looking for 4 folks accused of dragging a West Park couple out of their very own house and beating them proper exterior. The vicious assault was captured on their ring doorbell digital camera.

Court docket paperwork present this Cleveland couple had an order of safety in opposition to their next-door neighbor Steven Rogers, the daddy of three out of the 4 folks accused of the brutal assault.

Kelly Slobodian and her fiancé Mark Thomas Jr. declare their next-door neighbors have been terrorizing them for years.

“I’ve been a trauma nurse for years,” Slobodian stated. “I by no means thought that I might be going via this, stepping into an ambulance to the emergency room as a trauma affected person. I’ve had remedy. I’ve nervousness and panic assaults due to these folks. I lived in West Park my complete life. I by no means needed to take care of neighbors like these earlier than ever.”

On Sunday night, Cleveland police stated they had been known as to a house on West 156th Avenue.

Once they arrived, they discovered the couple battered and bleeding.

“We each needed to spend nights within the hospital,” defined Thomas. “Kelly is terrified. I’m additionally scared for Kelly after I’m not house.”

In response to the report, Thomas went to get one thing out of his automobile when Estee and Candice Rogers began attacking him from behind. Slobodian instructed police she thought they had been attempting to get her to come back exterior and battle.

“They began to come back after me and I went into the home,” Slobodian stated. “The 2 women dragged me out of the home and began punching me on my porch. I couldn’t get again in my home as a result of they broke my door. Mark was attempting to get to me in order that he may assist me they usually had been beating him. The one brother and a few man that I don’t know I believe a boyfriend came visiting and began kicking and punching mark to get him away from the women in order that they might proceed punching me within the head and the one man punched me within the face.”

Within the video, you’ll be able to see two ladies assault Thomas, and the identical two ladies assault Slobodian on her porch.

You too can see one other man punch Thomas; he’s later seen stomping on one thing that seems to be Thomas.

Within the video, you additionally see Steven Rogers, the couple’s neighbor and father of three of the attackers watching the battle.

Thomas claims Steven Rogers has been harassing his fiancée for years and he or she already has an order of safety in opposition to him.

“He had cameras inside his tree pointed to her entrance door,” Thomas stated. “He had cameras on his again door pointed on the again bed room. He had cameras on his storage pointed into her storage and it was simply uncontrolled.”

Steven Rogers isn’t going through legal fees as a result of he wasn’t concerned within the assault.

Slobodian stated earlier than the assault she tried to get an order of safety in opposition to her neighbor’s grownup children and court docket data present it was denied saying, “Ms. Slobodian and Mr. Thomas’ retelling of these occasions is extremely exaggerated.”

The couple feels just like the court docket system failed to guard them.

“We’re attempting to do it the best method we wish to be certain that these folks pay for what they’ve executed,” Slobodian stated. “I wanna really feel secure in my house. I’ve labored onerous for what I’ve. Mark works onerous. We’re attempting to construct a life collectively. This isn’t honest. I instructed them that they’re simply ready to have them kill us.”

Cleveland police have warrants out for Estee and Candace Rogers for aggravated housebreaking, and warrants for Cordario Rogers and one other man for felonious assault.

Steven Rogers claims it’s the opposite method round and the couple has been harassing his household for years.

19 Information requested Rogers if he was part of the assault or inspired it in any method, and he stated no. We additionally requested him if he needed his household to leap the couple.

“No,” stated Rogers. “No. No, see I’m telling you I’m attempting to maintain my children out of this, and see what I’m saying is he got here out right here and spit in my face proper there.”

Rogers claimed the couple was screaming and cursing at his daughters proper earlier than the battle.

The couple stated they’re suing Steven Rogers in civil court docket for property harm this week, in order that they assume that will have additionally added to the strain.

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