MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A Miami Dade College student confronted, chased, and detained a 31-year-old convicted felon after she caught him filming her as she used a restroom on Tuesday at the North Campus, records show.
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The student said she was using a toilet at Building 2 when she saw “a black cellular telephone recording her from underneath the stall,” a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy wrote, according to a report.
The student said she exited the stall and confronted the man, who deputies later identified as Rishard Parsons, who has convictions going back to 2014, according to the deputy’s arrest report.
Parsons was last released from prison on April 12, and he was supposed to be on probation over a 2019 aggravated battery until April 11, 2028, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.
The student said she ordered Parsons to “delete the video,” but he pushed her and fled, so she “pursued him through the breezeway” and “shouted for assistance,” according to the deputy’s arrest report.
A good Samaritan, who heard the student’s cries for help, joined the pursuit, and they detained Parsons before MDC public safety officers and MDSO deputies arrived, according to the report.
“The victim suffers from a possible fracture to her left knee,” a deputy wrote about the student, according to the arrest report.
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MDC public safety officers were already searching for Parsons after another woman who works for MDC had reported she was in a stall at a restroom in the 100 building when she saw he “was recording her from the adjacent stall,” according to the arrest report.
The MDC employee walked out of the restroom and reported Parsons to MDC public safety personnel, who found surveillance video of him leaving the women’s restroom, according to the deputy’s report.
Deputies detained Parsons, took him to the MDSO special victims’ bureau for questioning, and he “admitted to being on campus and committing acts of voyeurism against both victims,” according to the deputy’s arrest report.
Miami-Dade corrections booked Parsons at 1:05 a.m. on Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.
Parsons faced three charges: Two counts of voyeurism and felony battery. His bond was $21,500.
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Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.
