A Massachusetts dad was so enraged that a jogger wasn’t wearing a face mask, he pulled a knife on the guy and ordered him to cross the street, police said.
Michael Nichols, 43, was arrested Thursday on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon following an investigation into the April 20 incident, police said.
Nichols and his two kids were walking along a sidewalk when he allegedly pulled out a knife and told the jogger to cross the street. The 29-year-old man, also of Cambridge, later told detectives he was about 30 to 40 feet away from Nichols at the time, according to a police report.
“Get the f— on the other side of the street,” Nichols said, the jogger told police.
Nichols brandished a silver pocketknife, the jogger told investigators. He then crossed the street and called cops, the police report shows.
Cops later caught up with a man walking with two kids and a dog who matched a description provided by the jogger, but they let him return home because his children “were becoming upset,” police said.
Once back at his home, the suspect admitted “telling someone to cross the street in order to keep distance” from his family, but denied pulling out a knife. No weapon was found during a subsequent search, police said.
A knife with a 4-inch silver blade and a 5-inch handle was found, however, on top of a large trash bag on a sidewalk bag near where the alleged confrontation took place, police said.
“It does provide a little information on some of the stress that may be on some people,” Cambridge police spokesman Jeremy Warnick told WFXT. “Certainly people have been in their homes for an extended period of time. We are going on six or seven weeks, which is a long period of time for a lot of people.”
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Michael Nichols, 43, was arrested Thursday on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon following an investigation into the April 20 incident, police said.
Nichols and his two kids were walking along a sidewalk when he allegedly pulled out a knife and told the jogger to cross the street. The 29-year-old man, also of Cambridge, later told detectives he was about 30 to 40 feet away from Nichols at the time, according to a police report.
“Get the f— on the other side of the street,” Nichols said, the jogger told police.
Nichols brandished a silver pocketknife, the jogger told investigators. He then crossed the street and called cops, the police report shows.
Cops later caught up with a man walking with two kids and a dog who matched a description provided by the jogger, but they let him return home because his children “were becoming upset,” police said.
Once back at his home, the suspect admitted “telling someone to cross the street in order to keep distance” from his family, but denied pulling out a knife. No weapon was found during a subsequent search, police said.
A knife with a 4-inch silver blade and a 5-inch handle was found, however, on top of a large trash bag on a sidewalk bag near where the alleged confrontation took place, police said.
“It does provide a little information on some of the stress that may be on some people,” Cambridge police spokesman Jeremy Warnick told WFXT. “Certainly people have been in their homes for an extended period of time. We are going on six or seven weeks, which is a long period of time for a lot of people.”
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