A Colorado businessman is facing felony assault charges after he was filmed throwing a 15-year-old boy onto the floor of an In-N-Out Burger for accidentally splashing his wife with water, according to cops.
Lucas Kalisher, 55, was at an In-N-Out in Loveland in the early hours of Aug. 4 when the teen was “engaging in horseplay by splashing water” on two pals, and “accidentally splashed” a female diner, local cops said.
“The juvenile male approached her table to apologize when an adult male accompanying the woman suddenly grabbed him, placed both hands around the front and back of his neck, pulled him down to the table and threw him backward onto the floor,” Loveland Police said.
Video showed the man repeatedly telling the startled-looking boy to “say sorry” before grabbing him in a chokehold and hurling him onto the tile floor.
“You don’t treat a lady that way,” said the man later identified as the Kalisher, the CEO of a private equity firm, Summit Source Funding.
Onlookers reacted with shock, with one person heard on the video complaining about the much-larger man “picking on a kid like that.”
Although the man and his wife left the restaurant before cops got there, he was eventually identified by witnesses to be Kalisher, police said.
A no-bond arrest warrant was issued Tuesday, and Kalisher turned himself in at 10:33 p.m. that night.
Kalisher was charged with assault in the second degree with strangulation – a felony – as well as one misdemeanor count of child abuse.
He is set to appear at his arraignment on Wednesday afternoon.
Kalisher’s LinkedIn and Facebook pages – which has since been taken down – listed him as the CEO of the private equity firm Summit Source Funding.
In June, he purchased a $1.75 million four-bedroom home in rural Loveland, which also had multiple paddocks and shelters for farm animals and equipment, according to the Zillow listing.
Before he was identified, footage of the shocking confrontation circulated online with appeals to help find him, including from the father of one of the other teens in the video infuriated that his son’s friend was “assaulted by a full-grown man.”
