Employee who was just fired gets in Audi and runs over co-worker in parking lot across the street: Police

A Wisconsin antheral who was fired from his occupation astatine a "healthcare and user brands" accumulation installation decided to instrumentality his choler retired connected a co-worker, with prosecutors saying helium began "slowly stalking" the worker with an Audi earlier plowing into him and sending him flying, according to tribunal documents.

Lenard L. Hale, 38, is charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide and hit-and-run causing large bodily harm for the alleged onslaught successful Waukesha County connected Monday, according to online tribunal records.

Hale had been fired earlier successful the time from his occupation astatine Aptar owed to "poor enactment show and stealing institution time," according to tribunal documents obtained by section ABC affiliate WISN. He allegedly targeted the unfortunate successful a Dollar General parking batch adjacent the Aptar gathering successful Mukwonago.

Prosecutors accidental the co-worker was recovered look down and bleeding successful the parking batch aft suffering a "very superior encephalon injury," per WISN. Authorities were called and surveillance video was viewed by investigators, with Hale being caught connected portion "stalking" the unfortunate with the Audi.

The video allegedly shows Hale driving dilatory down the antheral earlier the idiosyncratic spots him. Hale tin beryllium seen rapidly accelerating and swerving astatine the unfortunate arsenic the antheral tries to leap retired of the way, according to prosecutors, to nary avail.

Hale allegedly struck his erstwhile co-worker and sent him flying implicit the hood and extortion of the Audi earlier taking off. Police asked an Aptar manager to reappraisal the surveillance footage and helium identified Hale arsenic being responsible, according to prosecutors.

The accumulation institution describes itself connected its website arsenic a "global person successful cause delivery, user merchandise dispensing, including dosing and extortion technologies." The institution serves the "world's starring healthcare and user brands," per the website.

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Investigators tracked Hale down done a household member, who was visited by police. The Audi that Hale was driving was allegedly astatine the relative's location and was dented connected the hood and had a cracked windshield, WISN reports.

Hale was recovered wrong the household member's location hiding down a door, according to prosecutors. He was arrested and taken into custody on Wednesday, with his enslaved being acceptable astatine $750,000.

A preliminary proceeding is scheduled for Feb. 20.