Posted on August 6, 2018 at 12:04 am by West Sider

A man jumped out of a freezer at Sarabeth’s restaurant on Amsterdam Avenue and 80th Street on Sunday and began attacking employees, police said. The man was subdued by employees at the restaurant, and had a heart attack during the scuffle, police told the Times.

The man shouted, “Away, Satan!” and grabbed the knife after an employee opened the walk-in freezer at Sarabeth’s on the Upper West Side around 11 a.m., the police said. Workers who heard the commotion came and wrestled the man to the floor and took away the knife, according to the police. During the brunch-time struggle, the man lost consciousness and went into cardiac arrest, the police said. He was rushed to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead.

“The man “made statements consistent with him being mentally unstable,'” police told one of our tipsters (who happens to be a journalist). “He is from Arizona. Police don’t know when he went into the freezer, why he is in NYC, if he’s a tourist or not.”

The restaurant was evacuated, with crime tape in front of the entrance The 54-year-old man was from Arizona. Police did not immediately release his name.

Update, Monday morning: The man has been identified as Carlton Henderson of Cave Creek, Arizona.

Photos by Pam.