A man police believe is suffering from mental health concerns was arrested and charge Wednesday morning after officers were called to Bayswater Place for a report of a man with a knife.

A release from Kingston Police states that starting in August 2015, a man began to follow a female tenant around the building. After multiple occurrences, the woman let him know that she was not interested in any sort of relationship. Still, the man would go to the laundry room when she was there alone, go down her hallway even though he lived on another floor, and would knock on her door.

The woman and her domestic partner told the man again that they did want him near them. Afterwards the man wrote a disturbing letter to the woman. Though they were concerned for their safety, the couple didn’t contact police.

On Wednesday morning at approximately7:15 a.m., the man went to the victim’s apartment door again and knocked. A male friend who was visiting answered the door and the man attempted to stab the friend with a ceramic kitchen knife. The friend shut the door on the man’s arm, and suffered no injuries. The arm was eventually removed, but the man stayed outside the apartment door and started uttering death threats to the occupants inside.

Kingston Police officers attended the apartment, located the man and arrested him.

A 26-year-old Kingston man was charged by police with assault with a weapon, weapons dangerous, uttering threats to cause death and criminal harassment. He was held overnight in police custody to face a bail hearing Thursday.

– The Whig-Standard