WORCESTER, MASS. (WHDH) - A Worcester man is facing multiple assault charges after he allegedly swiped at two teenage lifeguards with a knife and a bat Wednesday.
Officers were called to the Lincoln Village pool house on Country Club Boulevard for a report of a disturbance shortly after 5:30 p.m.
A witness told investigators that the lifeguards had asked a group of kids to leave the pool area earlier in the day because they were not listening to them. The kids’ father, 42-year-old Carlos Betancourt, later walked into the pool house where the lifeguards were gathered and began verbally arguing with them
That is when Betancourt allegedly took out a knife and swung it at a 17-year-old boy. The boy was able to jump out of the way and was not hurt, police said.
Betancourt then went back to his car, grabbed a baseball bat, and returned. Police say he swung at a 15-year-old girl and missed before shattering the front glass door of the pool house.
Betancourt was later found inside a Liberty Street home and was placed under arrest.
He is due to face a judge on two charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and vandalism.
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