Detectives imagine the person allegedly stole a knife from a grocery retailer earlier than he started waving it round inside Watergardens Purchasing Centre in Taylors Lakes about 12.50pm.
Police allege the person used the knife to assault and threaten a 21-year-old man and a 20-year-old lady.
The Sunshine man has since been charged with two counts of illegal assault, theft, make threats to kill and armed with prison intent.
A witness named Tony advised 9 radio’s 3AW Afternoons yesterday {that a} brawl had unfolded between two males shortly earlier than police arrived.
“There was a brawl in the midst of the buying centre,” he mentioned.
“Two individuals had been preventing with one another and it seemed like one pulled out a weapon, undecided, it may very well be a knife.”
Tony mentioned a number of individuals, together with some individuals working at a barber store close by, intervened and tackled the boys.
The 30-year-old man has been remanded in custody to seem at courtroom at a later date.