A Tennessee man has been accused of stabbing a man and then swinging a bat at Metropolitan Nashville Police officers after getting into a fight over his refusal to wear a face mask.
Local news station WKRN reports that Metro Nashville Police say that a man named Jerry Cowan got into a dispute over wearing a face mask with a resident at a Nashville apartment complex on Sunday morning.
The argument eventually turned violent, and Cowan allegedly stabbed the resident in the arm using what the victim described as a "long blade with a makeshift wooden handle."
After police arrived on the scene, the victim advised them on the apartment where Cowan lived, and the officers heard yelling and general commotion coming from inside his apartment when they arrived at his door.
"Cowan could be heard on the other side of the door yelling that officers would have to kill them and he was not going to come out," reports WKRN. "A woman was inside the residence as well. She was yelling at Cowan to calm down."
The officers kicked open Cowan's door and found him swinging two baseball bats that he tried to use to attack them.
The officers eventually subdued Cowan using taser guns, took him into custody, and slapped him with multiple assault charges.
