Man Faces Multiple Charges After Alleged Assault at Walmart

A 32-year-old man faces multiple charges after allegedly assaulting an employee at the Sheridan Walmart Monday afternoon.

According to information from the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office, Cody Zack has been charged by the sheriff’s office for speeding, eluding and driving with a suspended driver’s license and by the Sheridan Police Department for battery, eluding and careless driving.

According to the sheriff’s office, sheriff’s deputies were notified around 3:45 p.m. Monday that police officers were pursuing a vehicle after investigating the assault at Walmart.

The pursuit led the police onto East Fifth Street and into the county where they discontinued the pursuit. Deputies arrived in the area a short time later and began patrolling Wyarno Road. They spotted the vehicle traveling east on the road at a high rate of speed.

A deputy tried to stop the vehicle, and the driver turned around and drove west toward Sheridan, again at a high rate of speed. A Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper successfully deflated two tires on the suspect vehicle using spike strips, but pursuit continued west on Fifth Street to the railroad tracks, which were blocked by a train.

The suspect then turned back east until coming to a stop at the Rock Stop.

The suspect refused to exit the vehicle and held a knife at his own throat. Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers and county sheriff’s deputies eventually talked the suspect into dropping the knife, and after more conversation, he exited the vehicle and was arrested without further incident.