LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A man walked down a busy stretch of Frankfort Avenue Friday evening with a DRACO pistol, scaring people nearby, according to police. 

"I never thought I would see something like that here," said Amy Lambert, bar manager at Frankfort Avenue Beer Depot Smokehouse. 

Lambert said she was working Friday night when people started yelling her name, saying someone nearby had a gun, and she quickly called 911.

"I immediately ran back inside. My first concern was the girls that were working for me that night. I immediately grabbed them, got them in the kitchen. Came back out. At this point, the man is in the street walking up Frankfort Avenue in the middle of the street," she said.

Security footage from Patrick's neighborhood bar appears to show a man with a gun walking around outside the bar Friday. Police said calls came in about a man waving a gun around Frankfort Avenue. 

"I was shaken up a bit for a couple days," Lambert said.

According to St. Matthews Police, when police got there they realized the man was a suspect in an earlier shooting. Police said the man is accused of shooting a woman just a short time before in the parking lot of a St. Matthews Shopping Center.

"We know he is acquaintances with them and she was meeting other family members and that's how this took place," said St. Matthews Police Chief Barry Wilkerson. 

He said some type of "altercation" took place that police are working through.

Wilkerson said suspect, identified as Arik Brooks, is accused of shooting the woman and taking a car from another person, then going to the Frankfort Avenue area. 

Wilkerson said with help from LMPD, Brooks was taken into custody. His charges include attempted murder, wanton endangerment, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and more. Wilkerson said the charges against Brooks stem from the shooting.

"He made no threats, didn't point the weapon at anybody that we know of," Wilkerson said, referencing the situation around Frankfort Avenue.

He also said, "I think what's important here is this was an isolated event with these individuals, still a dangerous situation, but we contained it as quickly as possible. It wasn't something where we had an active shooter running around in an area, it was contained to just this area. And once that individual left, again, we worked closely with LMPD and made the arrest as quickly as possible."

A judge set his bond at $200,000. Brooks is scheduled to be back in court later this month.

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