A Connecticut man was arrested after allegedly threatening customers and workers with a knife and pepper spray outside a grocery store.
The incident unfolded in front of Bob's Windham IGA in Willimantic, Connecticut, about 25 miles east of Hartford, according to information released by the state police on Monday.
Alexander Clemmons, 31, of nearby Canterbury, got into an argument with a male customer around 6 p.m. Sunday and allegedly pointed a knife at the man and a woman who was with him, police said.
When the woman took out her cellphone and began recording the scene, Clemmons allegedly put away the knife and pulled out a can of pepper spray.
A store worker intervened and threatened to call police, prompting to Clemmons ge into a car with another woman.
But he got out of the vehicle when the store's manager approached and told them they were banned from shopping there.
Clemmons allegedly pulled out the knife and pointed it at the manager, prompting the other worker to call 911.
Clemmons was charged with breach of peace, reckless endangerment and related offenses and was being held on $20,000 bail pending arraignment, police said.
