Man Attacks 3 With Machete At LI Sporting Goods Store: Police

PATCHOGUE, NY — A man was arrested and charged after attacking three people with a machete at a DICK's Sporting Goods store on Long Island, police said.

According to Suffolk County Police, the incident took place at 3:15 p.m. Friday at the store, located on Sunrise Highway in Patchogue.

Treyvius Tunstall, 22, of West Babylon, inquired about purchasing rifles at DICK’S Sporting Goods; he displayed identification to the employee assisting him but then pulled the identification back and walked away from the counter, authorities said.

Tunstall then moved to a different area of the store where he displayed a machete and attacked an uninvolved employee who suffered severe lacerations, police said.

A Fifth Precinct police officer and EMS workers applied tourniquets; the employee was then transported to Stony Brook University Hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries, police said.

As Tunstall fled the store, he struck a customer with the machete and then proceeded to strike another uninvolved man in the parking lot with the machete, police said. They were both treated at the scene for minor injuries, police said.

Tunstall was located nearby, arrested by Fifth Precinct police officers, and charged with first-degree assault; two counts of second-degree assault; three counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon; and three counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, police said.

Tunstall was held overnight at the Fifth Precinct and is scheduled for arraignment at First District Court in Central Islip on Saturday, police said.

A media representative for DICK's did not immediately respond to an email request for comment.