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SARATOGA SPRINGS — A Saratoga Springs man was arrested Thursday for allegedly attacking a woman walking to her car in a store parking lot.
Louis Drake Dee Broderick, 24, was booked into the Utah County Jail for investigation of forcible sexual abuse, aggravated assault, assault on a police officer, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and making a threat of violence.
On Thursday, a woman had just walked out of a store near 900 N. Redwood Road in Saratoga Springs when Broderick approached her in the parking lot, according to a police booking affidavit.
"While she began walking to her car, Louis walked up to her holding an object initially described as a stick which she stated she believed to be a weapon. While still approaching her Louis then asked her, 'Where do you think you're going?' to which she responded to her car. Louis switched the object from his right hand to his left hand and held it in a striking position just behind his neck," the affidavit states.
Broderick then grabbed the woman, forcibly pulled her close to him and touched her inappropriately, according to the affidavit.
"The victim stated she was scared that the object that he had in his hand was a weapon and that he was going to kill her," police wrote in the affidavit.
The woman broke free of Broderick and ran back into the store as he followed and grabbed her again. That's when others in the store stepped in to help the woman.
"Louis then began slamming his body forcefully against the store's glass windows and door while still holding the object in his hand," the affidavit states.
When police arrived and took Broderick into custody, he allegedly "made statements that he could have killed" and also "made statements towards the detaining officers that he was going to kill each of them," according to the affidavit.
In 2020, Broderick was charged with making a terroristic threat against a care facility in Springville. The case was later dismissed after Broderick was determined to be incompetent to stand trial, according to court records.
