Chris Redd Talks About His Latest Assault in New York: ‘It Was a Deliberate State of affairs’

Chris Redd is sharing extra particulars about his current assault in New York.

In a dialog with SiriusXM host Ron Bennington on Tuesday’s The Bennington Present, the Saturday Night time Dwell star opened up about his current assault, revealing that he believes the assault was deliberate.

“Folks referred to as it a random assault,” he mentioned. “I do not imagine that. I watched the footage. He waited for me an hour earlier than I received there. He was on the cellphone, he had a lookout dude and every part.”

Redd additional defined his reasoning. “All I am saying is that this, I’ve by no means performed nothing random the place it took me an hour to do it. I’ve by no means simply randomly performed a random factor that took a build-up. That is not what random is.”

The 37-year-old comic says so be believes “it was a deliberate scenario. That is what I really feel in my coronary heart and soul. That is what I noticed within the footage.”

“I am going to in all probability launch the footage and do a voiceover factor,” he mentioned and laughed.

When requested concerning the standing of the case, Redd revealed that the “chilly case received lukewarm actual fast.” He additionally joked that he’d been “ghosted by the chief of police.”

Final month, in a preview of The Final Snicker podcast, Redd talked concerning the incident which he described as a “surprise party of one fist.”

“I simply received performed texting my cousin who’s in Olive Tree [Cafe] above the [Comedy] Cellar, so I may go eat a few of his fries earlier than I received to hit the stage actual fast for my first set of three.”

He continued, “And as I put my cellphone in my pocket and continued to stroll as much as the Cellar, this man hit me within the face with one thing steel. I assumed it was brass knuckles as a result of it reduce my nostril to the bone.”

Redd defined he has been boxing for years and had “taken a punch within the face earlier than,” however this was an assault.

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“It wasn’t terrifying, however what was worrisome is how a lot blood was popping out of my face,” he mentioned. “I received two fractures in my nostril and a fracture in my cheek, however you recognize, a fist do not usually do all of that at one time. So, it was protected to imagine I used to be hit with one thing. The dude who hit me ran off. I used to be simply sitting there, I fell down so quick I did not even know I fell till I appeared on the footage.”

As a result of severity of the blow, Redd mentioned he was “gushing blood” which prevented him from discovering the attacker.

Following the assault, somebody from the comedy membership referred to as the ambulance, and he was transported to the hospital to obtain therapy.