Police Disarm Knife-Wielding Suspect Outside Elementary School

BOSTON, MA — The Boston Police Department says its officers disarmed a man wielding a kitchen knife outside an East Boston elementary school last week.

According to a news release shared by BPD Monday, Officers were called to Otis Elementary School around 8:40 p.m. on Sept. 8, where they encountered a man with a knife.

Police took the man, who reportedly appeared "heavily intoxicated," into custody, and confiscated a 9-inch kitchen knife (show in the picture above, used courtesy BPD).

According to Boston Police, several witnesses told them the suspect had threatened several parents accompanying their kids to school.

"According to one victim," Boston Police said, "the suspect showed the knife and threatened her with it as she walked past him with her 4-year-old son on Marion Street. Upon seeing the knife, the victim states she quickly grabbed her child and crossed the street to avoid any further interaction with the suspect."

Police identified the man only as a 36-year-old male from East Boston, who is charged with four counts of Assault & Battery by Means of a Dangerous Weapon.