A Minnesota man has been arrested after he allegedly assaulted a store employee who asked him to wear a mask and later tried to escape from arrest with a police officer still clinging to his truck, authorities said. said.
Luke Alvin Oeltjenbruns, 61, hit an employee at a Menard home improvement store on Wednesday after the worker said he could not go out without wearing a face mask, FOX9 Minneapolis reported, citing a criminal complaint.
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Oeltjenbruns allegedly tried to move past the worker, which still did not make him succeed. The 61-year-old then beat the employee with a piece of wood from his shopping cart and hit him five times in the head, the complaint reads.
Witnesses gave a description of the suspect and a license plate number to Hutchinson police officers, who tracked Oeltjenbruns to a Walmart parking lot after the incident. According to the report, he initially ignored the requests of the officers to stop.
When Oeltjenbruns finally stopped at a red light, the complaint said officers with weapons pulled closer and ordered the suspect out of his vehicle.
Oeltjenbruns again ignored the orders, rolled down his window and told police “that he did not care and to shoot him” before driving away, according to the charge.
He was stopped again where Hutchinson police officer Steven Sickmann blocked the road with his patrol car. Officials said they would break his window to get him out of the truck if he did not comply.
Oeltjenbruns was arrested and charged with one charge of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault and one of the flight of a police officer causing bodily injury.
(McLeod County Jail)
However, Oeltjenbruns still did not comply. When Sickmann grabbed through the driver’s side window, Oeltjenbruns grabbed the officer’s arm and rolled up the window, stepping on the officer standing on the truck’s steering board.
He then drove through a block of group cars, with Sickmann still clinging to the vehicle, the report said. Sickmann tried to use a hammer to break the window, but Oeltjenbruns allegedly took the hammer from him and hit the officer in the head.
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Police eventually stopped Oeltjenbruns and arrested him.
Oeltjenbruns was charged according to the online jail records with one charge of first-degree assault, two charges of second-degree assault and one of the flight of a police officer causing bodily injury.
Sickmann was treated in a hospital for a head injury, he was given eight stables and repaired at his home, police said.