MANCHESTER, N.H. (WHDH) - Police arrested a man who was allegedly spotted with a rifle after he became upset that children had allegedly hit his door in Manchester, New Hampshire on Wednesday afternoon.

Officers responding to a report of someone carrying a rifle and threatening people at 21 West River Drive around 1:30 p.m. learned that a man and a woman were leaving their apartment when they encountered another man at the front entrance holding a rifle at a “low ready position,” according to Manchester police.

He allegedly complained that the couple’s children had hit his door.

Police set up a perimeter around the building due to the uncertainty of the situation and saw the suspect, identified as 25-year-old Tyler Jones, leaving the complex and getting into a vehicle, police said.

Officers conducted a traffic stop and Jones was placed under arrest without incident.

He is slated to be arraigned in Hillsborough Superior Court — North Thursday on two counts of criminal threatening.

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