Parole Alert

InJuly 1974, Roland Reaves shot Cincinnati Police Patrolman David Cole three times on Florence Avenue in Walnut Hills, then forced his accomplice, Ricardo Woods, at gunpoint to shoot the 24-year-old officer again. A Hamilton County jury convicted Reaves of aggravated murder, and the court sentenced him to death. When the courts struck down Ohio’s death penalty law in the 1970s, his sentence dropped to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

The Ohio Parole Board last denied Reaves parole in March 2017 and ordered him to wait 10 years before his next hearing. That hearing is scheduled for January 2027.

Cheryl Cole Candelaresi has fought to keep her husband’s killer in prison for 52 years. Please help in her cause by clicking the link below and file your objection to his parole with the Ohio Parole Board.

Click here to file your objection to the parole of this cop killer with the Ohio Parole Board.