Watch: US veteran kills man with knife at Walmart store in South Carolina

COLOMBIA, South Carolina – Walmart shoppers, including a war veteran, were filmed helping to take out a man brandishing a knife and threatening people at a South Carolina store.

The incident was reported on January 4 at a Walmart store in Columbia City, local news channel WIS-TV reported, citing authorities. Video recorded by an employee shows a man in a red hoodie screaming and swearing at the store while brandishing a knife.

“I was at the self-service checkout where I work and a customer walked in and demanded $20,” a Storyful employee said. “I saw him have a knife after he screamed for $20. I said, “Oh, he has a knife” to one of my managers who tried to confront him.”

Another customer, later identified as veteran Demario Davis, was later caught on video hitting a man in a red hoodie with a pole used to queue at the checkout. The man then falls to the ground and another witness appears and takes the knife from him.

The man is later seen wrestling with responding Richland County Sheriff’s Department deputies before being handcuffed.

“I was at the checkout when my son noticed the guy walking in with an open knife,” Davis told FOX News Digital, adding that the suspect then walked up to the service counter, brandishing a knife at several female employees who ran away from the guy.

“Then I asked the employee: “Where is the security?” And she said she was a security guard,” Davis recalls. “When I go to the place where the gentleman brandishing a knife is terrorizing other customers and employees, he screamed, when the police come here, I will start cutting you all.”

Davis told FOX News Digital that another client tried to subdue a man brandishing a knife, “but the guy tried to cut his face.”

“That’s when my military training began, and I casually approached the facility not only to film it, but to protect myself if it failed, but with my excellent military training, I was able to neutralize the threat before law enforcement arrived,” Davis added.

“I am a public figure, so if I see something in the community, something is wrong, with all the violence, things and attacks, gun violence, you know you want your people in the community to step up too” Davis continued. “Policemen can’t do everything themselves.”

According to WIS-TV, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department’s emergency response team examined the man at a Walmart store and decided to take him to a local hospital for evaluation.

No charges were immediately filed, the TV channel reports.

This story was reported from Cincinnati.