UPDATE: Man sentenced after entering plea agreement for threatening to stab people at Howard Park

UPDATE: Court documents from St. Joseph County state Derrick Myers accepted a guilty plea agreement for his one charge of Intimidation.

Myers was sentenced to a year and a half in St. Joseph County Jail followed by one year of probation.

ORIGINAL STORY: SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The South Bend Police Department reports officers responded to Howard Park around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday regarding a man running around the park, threatening to stab people with a knife.

Police located and disarmed the man, identified as 43-year-old Derrick V. Myers, before detaining him.

He was found to be in possession of a steak knife.

Witnesses told officers Myers followed some parkgoers saying,“I’m gonna stab you, I’m gonna kill you.”

Witnesses added that they shouted at other parkgoers, telling them to run away.

Myers was arrested and taken to the St. Joseph County Jail.

The St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office charged Myers with Intimidation.