Police said someone waved at a butcher knife at people at the Kerestir Synagogue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Updated: Monday, 09 Mar 2009, 3:51 AM EDT
Published : Sunday, 08 Mar 2009, 5:08 PM EDT
MYFOXNY.COM - Two thugs threw soda cans at people entering a Williamsburg synagogue on Saturday, police said.
A short time later, one man returned to the temple at Berry and South Eighth Streets with a large butcher knife. It happened around 7:30 p.m.
Click on the video (left) to hear one man tell Fox 5 how he confronted the suspect.
More than 100 people, including dozens of children, were in the Kerestir Synagogue at the time, police said.
Several people confronted the man; others ran out the back door.
The suspect was described as a black man in his early 20s.
Community leaders hope if the suspect is caught that he will be charged with a bias crime.