Connecticut family enjoying sun-dappled park face horrific nightmare that suddenly ran at them from nearby woods

A Connecticut family has revealed their scary astatine seeing 2 drunk machete-wielding gunmen tally astatine them successful a section organization park.

Mom Mara Anderson was throwing astir a frisbee pinch her hubby and seven-year-old boy Rayden erstwhile nan 'irate' men started sprinting astatine them from nan adjacent woods. They instantly fled and hid successful their truck. 

'It was truthful scary, and it's overwhelming talking astir it because thing for illustration this happens successful this town,' Anderson told WFSB. 

The family was charged astatine by nan men connected a park's recreation fields successful Columbia, a Connecticut municipality of conscionable complete 5,000.

'All of a sudden, they conscionable commencement sprinting astatine america afloat retired and irate, wherever he's swinging his machete around,' Anderson added.

After nan family was safe successful their car, they called 911 and helped authorities find nan suspects.

At astir 3 pm, authorities constabulary apprehended 2 men connected Route 66 aft they allegedly near nan park.

They were identified arsenic Benjamin Deleon-Chach, 43 and Fabian Simaj-Tum, 53.

Both were arrested and charged pinch 2nd grade breach of peace, while Deleon-Chach was besides charged pinch driving nether nan influence, nonaccomplishment to thrust successful nan correct lane and driving without a license.

It is unclear why nan men ran astatine nan family successful nan park, but Anderson wrote connected Facebook that they were 'clearly not sober.' 

Investigators judge they had been trying to drawback crawfish astatine a adjacent creek. 

The 2 men told constabulary they brought nan machetes to protect themselves against nan 'multiple' snakes they encountered.

Their conveyance was pulled complete successful 'contained items accordant pinch nan individual stories,' according to an apprehension study by nan authorities police.

They were some released connected $1,000 enslaved and are owed to look successful tribunal connected July 31.

Young Rayden described his panic astatine watching nan events unfold.

'It was very scary, I was crying and stuff… I want to cognize what’s happening, truthful I consciousness comfortable coming backmost to nan park,' he said. 

His mom added: 'Yes, it was scary for america but I want parents to beryllium prepared nary matter what,' she said. 'There are group retired location pinch crazy motives.'

She besides took to her Facebook connected Wednesday to further explain what happened, saying her family wasn't 'attacked' by nan men. 

'We were simply ran astatine by them. Being astatine a kids park, and spotting 2 drunk men holding and waving weapons is simply a reddish flag,' she wrote.

She said officers besides told her 1 of nan men was 4 times supra nan ineligible intoxication limit erstwhile they were pulled over.

'I understand if they were really sportfishing for crawfish, and utilizing nan machetes for snakes,' she wrote. 

'But carrying and displaying ANY WEAPON nether that level of intoxication ON A KIDS' PLAYGROUND AREA while moving successful a family's guidance is NOT OKAY.'