By Jim Clark

Somerville Police officers were dispatched to the McDonald’s restaurant on McGrath Hwy. last Wednesday on reports of a man threatening a customer with hot water and a knife.

Upon arrival, officers were met by the reporting party who told them that while inside McDonalds waiting for his Uber Eats order, an unknown man started yelling at him.

The reporting party told police that he ignored the man in hopes that he would leave him alone, but he reportedly continued to yell and said that he was going to throw his drink at him which, was hot water.

The man eventually left the restaurant, after which the reporting party picked up his order, went out to his car in the parking lot, placed the food on the passenger side seat then walked over to the driver’s door.

While looking at his phone to see where he was going to be taking his order, the reporting party heard the same man yelling, “Come here, nigger.”

The reporting party noticed that the man was running towards him with a knife in his hand, so he ran back into McDonald’s to for safety and called the police.

The alleged assailant never went back inside McDonald’s.

While officers were talking to the reporting party, the suspect in question was walking out of the drive through and towards McGrath Hwy., at which time the reporting party said, “I think that’s him.”

The officers approached the man, later identified as Marco Ellison, of Cambridge, and asked if he had been in McDonald’s. Ellison reportedly spotted the reporting party and asked if they were stopping him because of that “punk.”

Ellison reportedly admitted to yelling at the reporting party inside of McDonald’s because he was standing too close to him. Additionally, Ellison said he left the restaurant and nothing happened after that, according to reports.

After a pat frisk of Ellison, a multi-purpose folding tool equipped with multiple knives was located in his front left pants pocket.

Ellison was subsequently placed under arrest on a charge assault with a dangerous weapon.