Haunted house actor accidentally stabs 11-year-old boy at Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea
Updated: Sep. 24, 2021, 10:42 a.m. | Published: Sep. 23, 2021, 8:08 p.m.
By Bob Sandrick, special to cleveland.com
BEREA, Ohio ? An actor outside a haunted house accidentally stabbed an 11-year-old Brook Park boy in the foot at about 8 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds, 164 Eastland Road.
The actor, a 22-year-old Middleburg Heights man, was trying to scare people walking into the haunted house. He was among several haunted house actors roaming the grounds that night.
As the boy and a friend approached, the man scraped the ground with a real Bowie-style knife that he had brought from home. The haunted house had supplied the actors with fake prop knives, but the man decided not to use one.
The man started stabbing the ground near the boy?s feet in an effort to frighten him. One thrust sent the knife through the boy?s shoe, cutting his toe.
When police arrived, the boy?s toe was bleeding slightly. Haunted house staff had applied first aid. Police dressed the wound and put the boy?s shoe back on.
The boy?s mother was called and she drove to the fairgrounds. Police asked her if she would take her son to the hospital, but the boy didn?t want to go, preferring to continue visiting the haunted house. Further medical treatment was declined, and the boy, his friend and the boy?s mother all stepped into the haunted house.
The actor acknowledged to police that using a real knife was not a good idea. He said he didn?t intend to hurt anyone. Police confiscated the knife.
Later, the actor?s mother called, saying she wanted the knife returned. Police told her they would hold onto the knife, and if no charges were filed against her son, they would give it back.
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