(TRINIDAD, Colo.) — A 22-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly chased the President of Trinidad State College and her husband with an axe over a missing cat. According to an incident report from the Trinidad Police Department (TPD), officers responded shortly before 3 p.m. to the Boulevard Loop Trailhead in Trinidad on a report of a man threatening people with an axe. When officers arrived, they contacted the two people who had been threatened, who were later identified as the President of Trinidad State College, Rhonda Epper, and her husband. Epper told police that she and her husband had been walking on the trail when a man approached them with an axe, yelling and asking where his cat was. The man, identified as 22-year-old Jeremy Ross, allegedly charged at the two, threatening that he would kill them if they had taken his cat. Courtesy: Trinidad Police Department After threatening Epper and her husband, Ross reportedly ran away across a bridge while hitting the bars of the bridge with the axe. According to police, multiple other people called TPD stating a man was throwing rocks at traffic near the I-25 southbound off-ramp and yelling about a cat, and he was identified as Ross. Once in custody, Ross told police that it had been a miscommunication about his cat that had lead to him threatening Epper and her husband, and that he was emotionally upset about his cat. He stated he did not mean to threaten their lives specifically and asked if he could talk to them to apologize. Ross also informed TPD that he had found the axe before the incident, and that he dropped it near the I-25 off-ramp. The axe was recovered by police. Ross was booked into the Las Animas County Detention Center on menacing charges.