(La Porte, IN) - Charges are filed in connection with a La Porte man pointing a loaded rifle and threatening to shoot multiple people.

 

Police on Monday responded to an apartment house on Lincolnway near Jackson St.

 

The investigation shows a woman in response to door knocking across the hallway from her apartment opened her door and saw a man standing there holding a rifle.

 

Police said the man identified as 35 year old Mathen Noel pointed his loaded bolt action rifle at the woman and threatened to shoot her, her baby and everyone else in the building.

 

The woman lives on the floor above Noel’s residence.

 

According to police, Noel went back inside his apartment but refused orders from responding officers to come out.  As a result, the La Porte Police Department’s Emergency Response Team was called and managed to take him into custody.

 

Noel is charged in La Porte Circuit Court with Level 5 felony intimidation and Level 6 felony pointing a firearm.

 

Noel was still being held today in the La Porte County Jail on $15,000 bond.