Bowling Green Police crisis negotiators were called to the scene of a domestic disturbance after a man, reportedly suffering from mental health issues, refused to come out of his home.
Police were called Wednesday (June 24) around 1:15 p.m., to an apartment in the 1000 block of South Main Street. Dispatch advised that a woman reported being held against her will, but had been able to get outside.
When police arrived, the woman told them that the 39-year-old man had blocked the door and refused to let her leave. Prior to that, the woman said she wanted to eat some pizza, which the man reportedly told her was poison. When she got the pizza out to eat, she reportedly turned around to see the man holding a knife up, pointing it down at her. She said she ran to the bathroom.
The woman allegedly told police that the man’s mental health had gone downhill since he stopped taking his medications. She reported that he was talking to voices, and kept asking her to not make him “release the Kraken.”
According to the police report, the man refused to open the door for police, but talked with them through the window blinds. He reportedly said he didn’t want to go outside because the light hurt his eyes.
The man reportedly confirmed that he had held the knife and blocked the woman from going outside, because the pizza was poisonous and would hurt a lot of people, and because he didn’t want her to leave.
Crisis negotiators spoke with the man, who came out of the apartment and was taken to Wood County Jail. He was charged with domestic violence and abduction.
