
Man in confrontation with WCPO weatherman Steve Raleigh found not guilty of menacing
Troy Morrow − whose 76-year-old mother suffered facial fractures and a concussion after being knocked to the pavement by Raleigh's son during the incident − was visibly relieved after the jury in Hamilton County Municipal Court announced its decision.
Walking out of the courtroom with his attorneys from the county public defender's office, Morrow began to cry, apparently with relief. He declined to comment.
Raleigh left the courtroom soon after the verdict was announced.
The case surrounded the aftermath of a minor vehicle crash that happened June 22, 2024, in the parking lot of the Montgomery Inn Boathouse. Morrow, a Boathouse employee, had asked his parents to pick him up that night, after he severely cut his hand on broken glass. Morrow, who would ride his bicycle from Covington to the Boathouse, believed he needed stitches.
Morrow's mother, father and cousin arrived in a Ford F-150 pickup. Soon after, a Cadillac Escalade driven by Raleigh's son, Carter, struck the pickup.
That ultimately led to a verbal confrontation between Morrow, 47, and Steve Raleigh.
Raleigh testified during the trial that Morrow said, "I'm going to (expletive) you up," before taking off one of the two shirts he was wearing and then aggressively approached him. That testimony was at the heart of the case, which was handled by city prosecutors.
Troy Morrow's cousin videorecorded some of the incident on a cellphone but the alleged threat cannot be clearly heard in the video.
'It's not there," one of Morrow's attorneys, Mariah Woeste, said during closing arguments. 'The threat did not happen.'
Another of Raleigh's sons, Kyle, ran up, and punched Morrow in the head before pinning him to the pavement. In response, Morrow's father approached Kyle Raleigh from behind, struck him and tried to get him off his son. Morrow's father and mother were both knocked to the ground.
Menacing is a low-level misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days in jail. The disorderly conduct charge is an even lower-level misdemeanor.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Man in incident with WCPO's Steve Raleigh found not guilty of menacing
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