WAKEFIELD, MASS. (WHDH) - A woman is facing criminal charges after police say she brandished a rifle during a dispute with a crowd of people at a family-friendly event in Wakefield on Saturday.
Families who witnessed the incident said they went from enjoying a tune or two at the town’s porchfest celebration to facing what appeared to be a gun out the window of a vehicle.
“I was just like, you could have hurt someone,” said the witness, who said what started as a woman speeding through the neighborhood and shouting profanities ended with the driver pointing what appeared to be a loaded weapon out the window at the crowd.
“I’m standing right there in the street and she had what appeared to be a shotgun. I don’t know anything about guns but just pulled like this as she was driving by as you see in the video and it just freaked us all out,” they said.
Another witness said, “Whether it was a real gun or not, it doesn’t matter when you threaten us with a weapon or non-weapon, the behavior was disturbing enough.”
After an investigation, police say they arrested a 42-year-old Wakefield woman on an assault with a dangerous weapon charge. She’s expected to be arraigned Monday.
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