SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Video made its approach throughout social media of an incident that started with a person attempting to return a automobile he’d simply bought and ended with that automobile contained in the dealership, the enterprise’s entrance door and home windows utterly destroyed.
The incident at Tim Dahle Mazda in Sandy was summed up succinctly in an officer’s possible trigger assertion, filed Monday night hours after suspect Michael Lee Murray, 35, is seen within the video plowing by means of the entrance of the dealership earlier than exiting the automobile and shouting obscenities on the workers.
The video, proven within the embedded X put up beneath, has not been edited for language, which isn’t protected for work.
“Murray advised the supervisor that since they aren’t giving his a refund he was going to drive his automobile by means of the entrance doorways,” based on the arresting officer’s affidavit. “Murray then walked out of the constructing, acquired into his automobile that he purchased from them earlier, and drove it by means of the entrance doorways into the constructing.”
According to police, Murray had bought a automobile from the dealership earlier that day however returned demanding his a refund, claiming the automobile was a “lemon.”
According to an announcement issued by police on Tuesday, when workers defined the gross sales contract specified the automobile was offered “as-is” and couldn’t be returned, Murray threatened to drive by means of the constructing’s entrances.
Seven gross sales individuals needed to leap out of the best way when Murray carried out his menace, crashing by means of the dealership’s glass doorways round 4:06 p.m. The impression despatched particles flying into one other automobile within the showroom on the dealership. Someone within the video could be heard yelling “Call the police!” as Murray picks his coat up off the crashed automobile, walks outdoors and waits for police to reach and arrest him.
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“As Officers approached, Murray was standing proper outdoors the entrance door and when requested what was occurring he mentioned they offered him a ‘lemon’ and they might not give him his a refund for the automobile that he had purchased,” the officer’s report states. “…Murray was cooperative whereas being positioned into custody. Murray mentioned that he wouldn’t be talking with Officers.”
Sandy police reported seven associates contained in the dealership needed to dodge the incoming automobile, a few of whom could be seen leaping out of the best way within the video.
No main accidents had been initially reported.
The incident precipitated an estimated $10,000 in injury and compelled the dealership to briefly stop operations.
Murray was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail about two hours after the crash on suspicion of second-degree felony prison mischief with greater than $5,000 price of property injury, Class A misdemeanor reckless endangerment, and Class A misdemeanor financial interruption.
He was ordered to be launched on his personal recognisence at 10:15 p.m.
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