A Florida man tried to run over his wife by driving his truck into a Waffle House where she works as a waitress, the Panama City News Herald reports.

Police say Charles Patrick O'Bryan has been charged with attempted murder and felony mischief after he "intentionally drove his 1987 Ford pickup truck through the Waffle House building."

The vehicle struck his wife, Danielle Gibbons, who was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

The newspaper, quoting police, says O'Bryan had called the restaurant Monday evening to speak to Gibbons but was unable to get her on the phone.

He told an employee that he was coming "to run his truck through the building and kill everyone," police say in a news release.

After crashing into the building, O'Bryan emerged from the truck wielding a knife, police say. A witness tells the New Herald that he used a broken piece of metal to subdue O'Bryan until police arrived.