BELLEVUE, WA — King County prosecutors this week filed a felony harassment charge against a Spanaway woman accused of threatening a Bellevue gas station clerk with a gun after being removed from the store for repeatedly refusing to wear a mask.

According to charging documents filed Tuesday, Angela Nommensen, 33, entered an AM/PM on Northeast 20th Street last Thursday, shortly before 11 p.m., asking for a receipt for the gas she pumped.

Bellevue police said the clerk and Nommensen offered differing accounts of what happened next. The woman alleged he “attacked her” and “grabbed at her neck,” then pushed her from the store, while the clerk told police he gently grabbed Nommensen by the shoulder and escorted her from the building.

At that point, Nommensen told officers she was “in fear for her life” and pulled out a pistol to “scare him away.” The clerk told police he walked back into the store as soon as she was outside, then turned around to see her pull out a gun and was worried she would shoot him.

Officers said cell phone video provided by Nommensen showed the clerk asking her to leave multiple times and explaining why. Surveillance video from the store largely confirmed the clerk’s account of events and even showed the woman appearing to hit him, police said.

In court filings, Bellevue police officer Ian Sauve writes:

“[The clerk] can be seen walking up to Nommensen and grabbing her jacket on her left shoulder and pulling her towards the front door. Once outside the front door to the gas station, [the clerk] is seen letting go of Nommensen and then he starts to walk back inside. As [he] walks inside, Nommensen is seen running up to Martinez and she appears to hit him several times with what looks like her right hand.

Nommensen then drops her phone and when she goes to pick it up, [the clerk] walks back inside the gas station and separates himself from Nommensen. Nommensen can then be seen looking at [him] through the glass doors when she removes a black hand gun from her right side. When she draws the hand gun out from the holster, it appears to point forward from her body towards the inside of the store and then she points it to her left displaying the side [of] the hand gun to [him] through the door.”

The officers arrested Nommensen on suspicion of assault and took the gun into evidence police said. She had a first court appearance in King County on Jan. 28, where prosecutors asked a judge to hold her on $75,000 bail. Prosecutors said a judge released her on personal recognizance with an order not to possess weapons.

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office filed a formal felony harassment charge in the case on Tuesday, and an arraignment hearing is scheduled for Feb. 14.