The credit union employee who was run over by a truck on Oct. 9 has given a full statement to law enforcement regarding the incident, but is severely injured, according to County Attorney Josh Racki.
Jeremiah Gideon was charged with felony counts of attempted deliberate homicide and assault on a peace officer for hitting the man with his vehicle.
Gideon is being held in the jail on a concurrent bond of $500,000 for both felony charges.
Racki said that his office committed Gideon to the Montana State Hospital following a civil trial in late August.
Racki told The Electric that his office was not notified that Gideon had been released and had not yet received information from the agency as to the reason for his release.
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The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, which oversees the state hospital, told The Electric that they couldn’t confirm or deny whether Gideon was a patient and generally can’t share confidential information about patients.
In May 2023, Gideon was charged with assaulting a detention officer while in custody at the Cascade County Adult Detention center, according to court records.
Great Falls emergency personnel were dispatched around 10:50 a.m. Oct. 9 to reports of a person being struck by a vehicle at the intersection of 9th Street South and 8th Avenue South.
An officer arriving on scene was told that the suspect had left the scene and the vehicle description of a dark green Chevrolet pickup with a lawn mower in the bed matched the description of Gideon’s vehicle, which was known to the officer, according to court documents.
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Medics arrived to attend to the man lying in the street on 8th Avenue South, just east of the intersection with 9th Street South, who appeared to be severely injured, according to court documents. A city bench that was in the boulevard had also been knocked over and was in the street.
Officers saw tire marks leading from the parking lot of the Montana Credit Union at 901 8th Ave. S. onto the street where the victim was lying, as well as damage to a vehicle parked on the street.
Officers spoke to a witness who had been at the drive-through ATM lane during the incident and obtained video footage from the bank surveillance camera.
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The witness told police he was in his vehicle at the ATM when Gideon pulled up next to the passenger side of his vehicle saying the government was tracking money and that Johnson shouldn’t be getting money. The witness said that Gideon wasn’t making sense and asked him to leave, according to court documents.
A bank employee, later identified as T.M. came out and asked Gideon to leave, going to the space between Gideon and the witness’ vehicles.
In the bank video, Gideon can be seen backing up his vehicle “in what appears to be an attempt to square up his vehicle to T.M.,” according to court documents, then accelerated toward T.M., striking Johnson’s vehicle first.
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T.M. can be seen attempting to get away by moving to the front of the witness’ vehicle, but Gideon pursues as T.M. moved south toward the street and across the vehicle, but is struck by Gideon who runs him over, striking a parked vehicle and fleeing the scene, according to court documents.
Gideon was identified by the bank as he had made a transaction just before the incident and was located by officers in his truck, admitting to them that he had run someone over, according to court documents.
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Around 1:30 p.m. Oct. 9, detectives interviewed Gideon at the Cascade County Adult Detention Center. During the interview he used racial slurs toward one of the detectives and kicking him, yelling at both detectives, threatening to headbutt one and run him over too, according to court documents.
