LAWRENCE — A man walked into a Broadway bakery yesterday morning with a large silver kitchen knife and told the clerk he "felt like killing someone," police said.
Officer Nelson Potter was flagged down at 7:30 a.m. by a man who had just been inside Caribbean Bakery at 205 Broadway, and the store clerk had told him the man had come in and threatened to kill everyone in the shop.
The clerk told Potter one of her regular customers had brandished a long silver knife and told her, "I'm frustrated and I feel like killing everyone in here."
The clerk told Potter she became scared and ran to the back of the bakery, and when she returned the man was gone.
She said he was wearing a green checkered jacket and a tan baseball cap, and said he fled south on Broadway.
Potter began checking the area and found a man who matched the description. He also found a large silver knife in the man's back pocket.
The man, identified as Angel Perez, 51, of 245 Broadway, admitted to Potter he had been at the bakery, but denied pulling the knife, police said.
As Potter drove him to the bakery for identification, Perez told him he "might have pulled or shown a knife to people in the bakery," police said.
Once Perez was identified as the man who entered the bakery with a knife, he was arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, threatening to commit a crime, and carrying a dangerous weapon.
