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SANDY — A man surrendered to a SWAT team that responded to his home Monday after he assaulted his brother on a golf course, police said.
Officers received reports of an aggravated assault at the Schneiter's Pebble Brook Golf Course around 9:45 a.m., according to Sandy police. Michael Schneiter, 44, hit his brother with a blunt object on the golf course, seriously injuring his brother's hand, police said.
Schneiter made threats, including threatening to harm police officers, before fleeing the scene, police said.
SWAT was dispatched to Schneiter's home at 8858 S.1260 East, due to the nature of the threats. Police said Schneiter's mother and another brother were in the home with him, but police didn’t believe the family members were in imminent danger. However, the family members were afraid to leave the home due to Schneiter's threatening behavior.
He surrendered to the SWAT team just after 3 p.m. after a brief standoff.
Police did not release any other information about the argument, what the brothers were doing at the golf course, or the weapon that was used, noting only that the man was not armed with a "traditional weapon" like a gun or a knife, and reporting that the weapon used in the assault had been collected by police.
Schneiter pleaded guilty in 1994 to two reduced charges of attempted aggravated assault, a class A misdemeanor, and in 2013 pleaded guilty to reduced charges of attempted possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor, according to Utah state court records. In 2009 he took a plea in abeyance to a class B misdemeanor lewdness charge.
Schneiter was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on suspicion of one count of aggravated assault, a third degree felony. Formal charges will be determined by the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office.
Parents in the neighborhood were briefly in a lockdown due to the SWAT situation and were unable to pick up their children from the bus stop, according to Canyons School District spokesman Jeff Haney. District officials waited with the Peruvian Park Elementary School students at the bus stop and took care of them until the parents picked them up, Haney said.
Contributing: McKenzie Romero
