A man was given a jail sentence Thursday for threatening a woman with a knife outside a Mason City apartment building last month and squaring off with police officers while still holding the weapon.

Damon John Torres, 57, a resident of Shalom Towers 2, 304 Third St. N.E., was holding an open folding knife while standing in front of a woman seated on a bench up against the building Aug. 28 and told her he would kill her, according to a Mason City Police Department criminal complaint.

Torres also pushed a man who was standing in front of him onto the bench, causing him to strike his head against the brick wall behind the bench, the complaint states.

When two uniformed MCPD officers responded to the scene a few minutes later and knocked on his door, Torres ran out with a knife and squared

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