COVENTRY – Authorities arrested a Coventry man following a domestic dispute in which he allegedly threatened to stab another person and fired a pistol at the windshield of a nearby vehicle.

According to the Chenango County Sheriff’s Office, 56-year-old Ronald Torre, Sr. of Coventry was reported to authorities in a call made during an altercation at a home near North Road and Nursery Street in the Town of Coventry. Officials say Torre had been in a physical argument with the female victim, wielding a knife and threatening to stab her.

During the incident, it is alleged Torre took a handgun and walked outside the residence where he fired one round into the windshield of a parked vehicle, then fled into a nearby barn on the property. It was also reported by the caller that Torre was ill and off his medication.