The man was “fidgety” throughout the flight.

Last month, a passenger on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Las Vegas planned to kill a fellow passenger with a makeshift weapon during a heated argument mid-flight. According to the Washington Post, the man, Julio Alvarez Lopez, was arrested at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on January 24. catch. new york post.

He was charged with “one count of assault with a dangerous weapon.” The man was “fidgety” throughout the flight. He reportedly spent long periods of time putting on and taking off gloves and using the bathroom during the plane’s initial descent.according to fox news“,” He sat down, stood up a second time and went to the bathroom, where he reportedly walked for ‘some time’. “

When Lopez returned to his assigned seat, he “began punching” the man sitting across the aisle. Additionally, he attempted to stab him in the eye.

“During the argument, (the victim’s) wife screamed at the defendant to stop hitting her husband,” an FBI agent wrote in court documents. “(A witness) unbuckled her seat belt and yelled at the defendant. Shouting stop.” The woman, who was protecting her seven-year-old son, was also attacked by Lopez.

According to witnesses, there was “blood everywhere” and “pens and tape bags” fell to the floor. The co-passenger was alive but seriously injured. After the fight, Lopez walked to the front of the plane and yelled, “I will only talk to the FBI.”

On-board law enforcement officials told Lopez to sit down while flight attendants “efforts to provide elastic handcuffs and the defendant was restrained for the remainder of the flight.”

He was arrested by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department after the plane landed around 8:30 a.m. The man said he planned the attack because he “felt the Mafia had been chasing him”, adding that he had never met the victim “but planned to kill him”. Additionally, he claimed that he wrapped a rubber band around the pen before boarding the plane.

according to fox news, he told investigators he was seeking asylum in the United States. He added that he believed the fellow passenger was part of a “drug cartel” and was following him.

The man will appear in court again on March 1.