Fired, disgruntled Walmart employee faces numerous felony charges after driving car through aisles of North Carolina store wsoctv.com
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Lacy Cordell Gentry (WSOC)
A former Walmart employee is facing numerous felony charges after police said he drove down several aisles of the Concord, NC store where he’d worked.
The enraged 32-year-old Lacy Cordell Gentry crashed his car into a Concord, North Carolina, location, driving down several aisles of the store before he was stopped, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Police said Gentry is a former employee at the store and had been fired within the past week.
The terrifying incident unfolded at 6 am on Friday, police said.
The early hour meant there were no customers on site, but a number of employees — the man’s former colleagues — were in the store at the time of the collision, according to the report.
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Photos from inside Concord Walmart (WSOC)
When officers got to the Walmart, they went inside and confronted the driver, taking him into custody without incident.
Police said Gentry did a lot of damage in the store.
“If you take a car through a Walmart, there’s going to be a lot of damage,” a police official told Channel 9. “Aisles aren’t wide enough [for a car] so there’s a lot of property damage.”
“He may have had some problem with the way the management was handling the issue that he had with them,” a Concord Police spokesman said.
Gentry is currently in the Cabarrus County Jail being held on a $100,000 bond. He faces felony charges, including assault on a government official with a deadly weapon, breaking and entering as well as other misdemeanor charges, Fox News reported.
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— Susanna Black (@SusannaWSOC9) April 2, 2021
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