A man is facing an attempted murder charge in Tuesday's knife attack on a Publix worker in North Miami Beach, police said.
Allen Pierre-Louis, 32, was arrested in the attack that happened at the store at 14641 Biscayne Boulevard.
According to an arrest report, Pierre-Louis waited for over an hour at the store, entering and exiting multiple times as he tried to locate the victim.
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Pierre-Louis eventually found the employee in the back of the store near the deli.
The report said Pierre-Louis rushed the victim, put a towel over the victim's mouth and then stabbed the victim multiple times in the neck and shoulder area.
Pierre-Louis slammed the victim on a metal display area, but witnesses rushed in and hit Pierre-Louis in the head with boxes of sausages before he fled the store, the report said.
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The entire incident was caught on camera.
Officers responded and canvassed the area before taking Pierre-Louis into custody. He was found to have cuts on his hands, the report said.
The victim was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, officials said.
The report didn't give a motive for the stabbing.
Pierre-Louis was booked into jail, where he remained held without bond Wednesday, records showed. Attorney information wasn't available.
