GREAT FALLS, Mont.—A man has been charged with attempted deliberate homicide for allegedly hitting a credit union employee with his vehicle.
The man, Jeremiah Drew Gideon, has also been charged with assault on a peace officer.
The employee of Montana FCU, a man identified only as “T.M.” in court documents, was in critical condition late last week, The Electric reported.
The incident happened last week outside the CU branch near the intersection of Ninth Street South and Eighth Avenue South in Great Falls. Court documents state a witness was at the drive-through ATM at the CU when Gideon drove up in a dark green Chevy pickup truck alongside the passenger side of the witness’ car. Gideon began telling the witness the government was tracking money and he should not be seen taking money from the ATM. The witness told Gideon to leave, KRTV said.
he credit union employee then came out and told Gideon to leave, and went between the two vehicles. Surveillance video shows Gideon backing up his truck, and then accelerating toward the CU employee, but the truck hit the witness vehicle instead. The CU employee then tried to get away, but Gideon drove after him. The employee moved toward Eighth Avenue South and across the boulevard, and was then hit by Gideon’s vehicle, KRTV said.
'Gideon Flees'
The court documents allege that Gideon then proceeded to run over the employee, striking another parked vehicle in the process, and then drove away. A police officer soon found Gideon in his vehicle and began questioning him. Gideon reportedly admitted to the officer that he had run over a person, and said that he had “killed that dude,” KRTV said.
“Gideon was identified by CU employees as he had made a transaction at the branch just before the incident. During questioning at the Cascade County Detention Center, Gideon reportedly became combative with investigators and used racial slurs; at one point, he got up and was yelling at the officers, and kicked one of them in the groin,” KRTV said.
Gideon also threatened the investigators, saying he would head-butt and run over them, KRTV added.