(KAIR)--A 32-year-old Atchison man goes to jail, accused of approaching a family while holding a knife, and attempting to stab a man for refusing to let him enter into the family's residence.

Jailed in connection with the crime is Meysam Aghorlikhani, who Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson said was taken into custody following the Sunday evening altercation. “An officer on patrol observed several people in distress in the 600 block of north 10th,” Wilson told MSC News. “A 32-year-old male was taken into custody at the scene after it was determined he had threatened several people with a knife. A man and wife had been outside of a residence when the [man] approached their house. He was angry and speaking incoherently and appeared to be under the influence of some type of drug.”

According to Wilson, the family, which included the husband and wife who stood outside, along with an 18-year-old who came out to see what the commotion was about, and two others inside, including a young child, did not know the alleged attacker. “He approached the residence,” Wilson said. “The door to the residence is very near to the street, and so he actually grabbed a hold of the door like he was going to go in. The man who lived there kept him from going into the house, at which time the man actually tried to stab him, swinging at him with the knife. He did the same thing with the wife.”

Wilson said it was by coincidence that the officer, who intervened, was passing by the residence and became involved in taking Aghorlikhani into custody.

Aghorlikhani was arrested for aggravated assault and booked into the Atchison County Jail.