EUSTIS, Florida—A man is in custody after entering a downtown Eustis building armed with a knife Friday afternoon.
Jacob Parrish, 36, of Umatilla entered Wells Fargo Advisors, 127 North Bay Street around 3 p.m. Friday armed with a knife while three employees, two females and a male were in the building, Eustis Police Department Capt. Jon Fahning told Inside Lake, the only media on the scene.
The three employees barricaded themselves in a room and Parrish refused to let them out and they called police, Fahning said. Parrish locked himself in the building at the corner of Bay Street and McDonald Avenue and a manager of the business quickly brought law enforcement officers a key. Fahning negotiated with Parrish, and he gave himself up when a Lake County Sheriff’s Office K9 arrived on scene. None of the employees were injured.
“He essentially surrendered,” Fahning said.
Police believe Parrish thought the business was a bank, but it houses financial advisors, Fahning said. Parrish was still in EPD custody at press time and had not been booked into the Lake County Jail, so a mugshot was not available.
This is a developing story.
