Husband in midst of divorce repeatedly rams dump truck into wife’s home, CA cops say

A man going through a divorce repeatedly rammed a dump truck into his estranged wife’s Los Angeles home, according to video posted on TikTok by a neighbor.

In the video, people can be heard screaming as the dump truck slams into the front of the house. The truck also crashes into multiple parked cars and pushes one up into the front yard of the home.

“What is he doing?” one person shouts in the video, which has been played more than 4.2 million times.

The incident occurred at around 4 p.m. on Jan. 15 in Westmont, a community in southern Los Angeles, a sergeant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told McClatchy News.

The husband and wife previously shared the home but had recently had a falling out, he said. The woman previously requested to file a restraining order against her husband at the sheriff’s office, but it hadn’t been served yet. When the man learned that a restraining order was going to be served, he “lost his mind,” the sergeant said.

Earlier in the day, the man drove to the woman’s home in a white Impala and destroyed the front yard, he said. He then returned with the dump truck, which he owns for his private business, and repeatedly slammed into the house, causing damage to its front, the sergeant said.

No one was injured.

The woman told CBS Los Angeles that she feared for her life.

“A man who’s under that kind of rage, who’s to say what he might do?” she told the outlet. “He was trying to kill me. He really was.”

Deputies are still looking for the man, who they say is in his 60s. He could face charges including vandalism and making criminal threats, the sergeant said.

This story was originally published January 17, 2023 at 11:48 AM with the headline "Husband in midst of divorce repeatedly rams dump truck into wife’s home, CA cops say."