Kyle Remond Gray Jr., 37, is charged with Class C felony terrorizing in district court in Minot.

According to Minot police and a probable cause affidavit filed with the court, a woman called police at 1:19 a.m. Friday and reported that a man was trying to get into her residence in the 700 block of 8th Avenue NE, had fired a handgun into the air and was banging on her back door. She said he had made threats to kill her earlier that day and had also made threats regarding police.

A SWAT team was called in to assist the responding officers. The woman and her house guests safely left the residence and police also evacuated the woman’s neighbors from their surrounding residences.

Gray left the unattached garage without incident about two hours later and was taken into custody. He made an appearance on Friday in district court before Judge Gary Lee, who set bond at $10,000 cash or corporate surety, ordered Gray to have no contact with the alleged victim, and ordered Gray to participate in the 24/7 Sobriety Program. Ward County Assistant State’s Attorney Christopher Nelson had asked for a bond of $100,000, but Lee judged that excessive for a C felony.

According to the affidavit, the woman met Gray a few weeks ago through a mutual friend. Gray goes by the nickname “Cutty.” His surname is spelled “Gray” in a police affidavit and “Grey” on the North Dakota Courts site. The woman has been giving Gray rides around town since she met him and had been driving him around on Thursday evening.

According to the affidavit, the woman told police that Gray gets angry and aggressive toward women when he drinks and she believed he had been drinking tequila in the hours before the incident. Gray told her he has been “shot up” multiple times and suffered a brain injury during one of the shootings. The woman wanted Gray to leave her vehicle and had been trying to find a place to drop him off, but Gray kept refusing to leave her pickup.

Gray was allegedly holding a handgun in his lap while she was driving him around and kept picking it up and putting it back down several times. The woman told police Gray also took a magazine out of the handgun and put it back in several times and seemed to be trying to intimidate her. The woman told police that Gray kept telling her to shut up and had also struck her while she was driving him around. The woman said she was crying and was trying to draw people’s attention while she was driving around, but no one noticed. She also believed that Gray had stuck the gun out of the window and shot a round into the air while she was driving in the area of East Burdick Expressway on Thursday. The woman told police she asked Gray what was wrong with him and Gray said he was not afraid of the police and would shoot them all if he encountered them. He also allegedly threatened to shoot the woman when she tried to get out of the pickup.

After that incident, the woman convinced Gray to get out of the vehicle at the Rockin’ Horse, located at 2625 East Burdick Expressway, and then went home. She said Gray threatened to come back to her house and kill everyone in it. He had made similar threats before but never followed through. However, Gray was dropped off outside the woman’s house about two hours later by a dark colored Ford pickup. He then started banging on the woman’s door, saying “Just let me in!” and fired the handgun in the air. At that point, the woman called 911.

Police did not find a handgun when they searched the garage. They did find a spent 9 mm cartridge casing between the hood and windshield of the pickup truck.

Gray told Judge Lee that his ID says he lives in Corona, Calif., but he has actually been living with the alleged victim. He also had stayed in Bismarck previously. Gray said he has no felony record and his past offenses were misdemeanors.

A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for Jan. 10.