Fired, disgruntled Walmart employee faces numerous felony charges after driving car through aisles of North Carolina store

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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.

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.

Lacy Cordell Gentry (Source: Concord Police Department) Via Wbrc

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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