Crime & Safety

Police: Riverside Woman Hit Man, 80, In Head With Tire Iron

Police say it was a road rage incident.

Road rage led to violence in Riverside when a woman hit an 80-year-old man with a tire iron, police said.

Southampton Town Police said on Oct. 13, Rochelle Allen, 41, of Riverside was arrested by the Southampton Town Police detective division after she allegedly struck an 80-year-old man in the head with a tire iron after a road rage incident at Enterprise Drive in Riverside.

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Allen was chargedย with assault in the second degree, a felony, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a felony.

She was processed at Southampton Town Police headquarters and later arraigned at Southampton Town Justice Court. ย 

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