No one was injured when a driver rammed his vehicle into the fencing surrounding outdoor seating space in front of Shea’s Tavern and Homegrown Gastropub early in the morning on Jan. 4.
In a Facebook livestream, Shea’s Tavern co-owner showed the damage done to the fencing, some of which was pushed from in front of her bar and ended up blocking the entrance to Brauhaus 701 next door. In the video, Shea can be heard telling the owner of Brauhaus that she has people coming to help move the heavy fencing which he was unable to budge on this own.
Things may have ended much differently had the fencing, which was installed only a few years ago, not been there. It is likely the vehicle would have been driven into the front of the building where customers were still drinking inside of the 24-hour tavern.
Security camera footage shows a black SUV backing into the patio in front of Homegrown Gastropub twice before driving off. Then, after nearly a minute, the SUV drives north back up Virginia Street and onto the sidewalk, slamming into the patio in front of Shea’s Tavern and pushing its fencing into the doorway in front of Brauhaus 701.
According to another Facebook video with security camera footage, the damage done to the patio was purposeful and happened after the driver of the vehicle was kicked out of Shea’s. In this video, a person can be seen walking up the sidewalk and jumping out of the way of the SUV when it came back a third time to strike the patio.
According to RPD spokesperson Travis Warren, 36-year-old Duva Duiche Orr left Shea’s Tavern on South Virginia Street after an altercation. After ramming into the patio several times, Orr crashed into a semi-truck trailer farther north on Virginia Street near the Wild Orchid. He then returned to the scene, where he was taken into custody.
“There was an altercation with the suspect and some employees over his intoxication, which ultimately resulted in him leaving. I don’t know whether or not they kicked him out … but that is what precipitated him backing into the business,” Warren told This Is Reno. “He was ultimately charged with intentional act of destruction of property.”
Orr was booked on charges of driving under the influence, destruction of property and leaving the scene of a crash.
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