Dramatic Moment When A Brave Parent Throws A Knife Man To The Ground After Seeing Him With ‘Swinging Cleaver’ In Elementary School
- The incident took place outside St George’s Primary School in Tyldesley, Wigan
- Dramatic photos show the alleged knife man pinned to the ground
- Children were held in classrooms and parents in the hall, while officers arrived at the scene at 3:10 p.m. Friday. Police confirm a man has been arrested
- Residents said he heard the man screaming outside the school all day
Parents were forced into action on Friday when they assaulted an armed suspect who allegedly “waved a meat cleaver” outside an elementary school.
Video of the scene before the intervention showed the man holding a large knife. Dramatic photos later showed the man being pinned down outside St George’s Primary School in Tyldesley, Wigan.
Children were held in classrooms and parents in the hall as officers arrived at the scene at 3:10 p.m., the Manchester Evening News reported.
Due to the police incident, parents from nearby Tyldesley Primary School were asked to pick up their children.
Pictured: Dramatic photos show the alleged knifeman being pinned down outside St George’s Primary School in Tyldesley, Wigan, Friday afternoon
Before parents intervened, a video (photo) of the scene showed the man holding a large knife – possibly a meat chopper
Pictured: An unnamed man is seen in a video brandishing what appears to be a knife outside a primary school in Wigan on Friday
Residents said the man screamed and threatened on Darlington Street and surrounding roads.
He then walked towards St. George’s Primary School with a ‘cleaver’, according to witnesses, before parents and passers-by wrestled him to the ground.
One man, who intervened during the confrontation with the armed suspect, said: ‘I saw him walking towards the school with a meat cleaver.
“He made verbal threats, the boys surrounded him and then they cornered him and someone wrestled him to the ground.
“He’s been busy all day, but never in my life did I think he would go to school with a cleaver.”
Another parent, who was the first to call the police, said, “We were waiting for an accident. Today he sounded very sad and used foul language all day long. He just sounded incredibly upset and sad throughout the day.
Children were held in classrooms and parents in the hall as officers arrived at the scene at 3:10 p.m., the Manchester Evening News reported. Pictured: A police car is seen outside the school on Friday
“You could hear and see him from the backyard, brandishing knives. My husband who works from home ran down the stairs and said he goes to school at the front with a meat chopper and I was just on the phone to speak to the police right away and talk to them till they got here .
“The teachers acted very quickly and got everyone in the school hall, three men tried to calm him down but he was very, very excited and then he went further inside and then it was seven men watching what he was doing and then one of them even wrestled him to the ground.
“He was very upset. If he’d had one of those kids, it would’ve been horrible.”
A parent who also heard the man ‘scream’ during the day said: ‘When I went to pick up my child, we were put in the hallway and the children were in their class. We were there for an hour or so.’
The parents who wrestled the suspect to the ground were hailed as ‘heroes’. One wrote: ‘Thank you so much for protecting my children. You are heroes.” Another added: “Thank you to everyone involved, especially the heroes who risked their own lives to help.”
A GMP spokesperson said: ‘Around 3.10pm on Friday 15th July, we received a call with reports of a man with a blade knife at a primary school in Darlington Street, Tyldesley. Officers arrived and a man has been arrested.’