The man who was trespassing on WWE property is now suing them for being shot.
Over the course of a few years, beginning in 2015, Armando Alejandro Montalvo allegedly began showing up again and again at the WWE Performance Center harassing employees. He is accused of demanding a job and threatened the people there. In 2015, he was arrested after being ordered to leave and charged with trespassing.
Montalvo returned a few months later, demanded to be trained again and charged at police officer carrying stones or rocks, according to law enforcement. Montalvo was shot by the officer.
Police claim Montalvo is obsessed with a female WWE superstar.
He was charged with aggravated assault on a law-enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence and trespassing. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.
In 2018, he returned again. The WWE eventually got a restraining order against him.
Montalvo has now filed a federal lawsuit. He is claiming the officer used excessive force and he was not armed at the time. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE), WWE Performance Center Manager David Bailey, individual OCSO deputies Cpl. S. Wahl and Deputy D. Richardson, along with Aspire Health Partners Inc. and Walmart Inc are named in the suit.
He is asking for a jury trial and is demanding compensatory and punitive damages.
The judge in the case has recommended dismissing Montalvo’s lawsuit but told Montalvo he could revise and refile it to address the court’s concerns. The court’s issue with the filing is unknown.
In the past, Montalvo’s father has stated that his son deals with borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia and if he doesn’t take his medicine his behavior can change.
Montalvo alleges there is a conspiracy between the police and the WWE. That WWE employees harassed him and that he was unarmed, intoxicated and wearing headphones before being shot. He also claims police planted a knife on him although no knife was found at the scene nor on his person.
He also states in the filing that Aspire Health Partners Inc. “forcibly administered heavy psychotropic medications (“polypharmacy”) to keep him from pursuing his claims against the police and WWE.
As for Walmart, Montalvo alleges that a manager and police conspired to frame him after an incident at a store in which charges were dropped against him.
