He masturbated in public. It got uglier when he was confronted by an elderly man, cops say
Not many people would confront an inebriated man with his pants around his ankles. One senior citizen who did suffered painful consequences.
Kerry Vandergriff, 38, is accused of masturbating in a parking lot and clocking the senior citizen who told him to stop, according to Miami-Dade police.
The incident began Saturday evening when the elderly man spotted an apparently intoxicated Vandergriff pleasuring himself in the parking lot of a Fresco y Mas located near Southwest 122nd Avenue and Eighth Street in unincorporated Miami-Dade. Police say the man approached Vandergriff and told him to stop. Vandergriff responded with a knuckle sandwich.
Vandergriff “got upset and proceeded to punch [the man] with a closed fist on the right side of the face,” the officer wrote.
The senior collapsed but Vandergriff kept on coming, according to the arrest report.
Vandergriff “continued to punch him all over his body,” the officer wrote.
When police responded to the scene, they found a belligerent Vandergriff. Fire Rescue arrived shortly after and took him to Kendall Regional Hospital, where he continued to masturbate in front of officers as well as medical staff, the report says.
Vandergriff’s 38th birthday was Sunday. It’s unclear if he was celebrating his birthday.
Jail records show that Vandergriff, who is from Jacksonville, was booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Monday afternoon on several charges, including indecent exposure, disorderly intoxication and battery on a person 65 or older. He’s being held on $4,000 bond, according to the court documents.
A search of the Duval County court system yielded no convictions in the past decade.
This story was originally published November 28, 2019 at 6:00 AM with the headline "He masturbated in public. It got uglier when he was confronted by an elderly man, cops say."
