WASHINGTON — A Maryland man faces charges for threatening another man and pointing a gun at him inside the store in which he was working as a security guard.
Trayonta McCrea, of Bel Alton, 33, was arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.
On Sunday, May 26, just before 5 p.m., a man and the security guard got into an argument inside a store on Maryland Avenue in Northeast, D.C. The argument escalated when the security guard pointed a gun at the man and threatened him. Officers arrested the security guard, later identified as McCrea, and found an unregistered gun nearby.
McCrea was taken into custody shortly after making the threat and charged.
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