Crime & Safety
Road Rage Leads To Samurai Sword Being Pulled On Woman In RI: Report
North Providence police are looking for a man who pulled nearly crashed into a woman and then pulled a sword on her.
NORTH PROVIDENCE, RI — North Providence police are looking for a man they said confronted a woman with a samurai sword during a road rage incident Thursday.
D'anella Kudos told WPRI 12 the incident happened when a car cut her off on Admiral Street. She honked her horn, then the man blocked her, and then got out of the car armed with a sword.
"I thought he had a gun in his hand," Kudos told WPRI 12. "I was about to duck, then I saw a sword the size of a watermelon cutter, like a Ninja Turtle."
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North Providence police said they identified a person of interest and are working to get an arrest warrant.
For more on this story, read WPRI 12.
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