Body-camera footage released from Winter Springs, Florida, shows police investigating and arresting a 74-year-old man after an 11-year-old boy said the man pointed a knife at his chest because he was riding his bicycle on a sidewalk instead of using a nearby bike lane.
CrimeCamNow reported that the confrontation happened on April 8, 2024, as the fifth-grade student was riding home through a neighborhood. The boy told officers that the encounter left him believing he might be killed, so he apologized to the man, rode directly home, and told his mother what had happened.
Police later identified the man as Richard Shafer. After finding him near the Bear Creek Nature Trail, officers recovered a knife and a handgun, arranged for the boy to view him from inside a patrol car, and arrested Shafer on an aggravated assault charge…