A man who pointed a gun at a woman’s face outside a Denton retail shop Sunday claimed she asked for it by smacking him with an umbrella, according to police reports.

The quarrel started when the man drove his sport utility vehicle through a puddle in a parking lot in the 1000 block of Avenue C, splashing the woman and her family as they stood outside a restaurant. When he didn’t stop to apologize, the woman followed him as he parked the vehicle and walked to a nearby retail shop.

They offered conflicting accounts about what happened next.

The woman told police that when she confronted the man, he said, “Y’all shouldn’t have been standing there.” She asked him if he was serious and he cursed at her and then pulled a gun from his fanny pack and pointed it at her face, she said.

In the man’s account, the woman hit him in the face with an umbrella, prompting him to draw his revolver and tell her to “back off.”

Police arrived at the scene and interviewed witnesses. The man’s wife, who was waiting in the SUV when the fight happened, said she saw the woman hit her husband with the umbrella.

Officers didn’t see any sign of injury, though, and the man admitted that he didn’t think his life was in danger when he brandished the gun, according to police reports.

The woman, who denied striking the man, told police she didn’t want to press charges. But based on the man’s behavior, officers confiscated his gun and concealed handgun license. They planned to ask the Texas Department of Public Safety to revoke the license, according to the reports.

Other reports

4000 block of Barton Creek Lane, Highland Village — A man paying for concessions at a movie theater Feb. 21 reported that the clerk took his credit card and held it over a cellphone, which was sitting on the counter next to the cash register. The man said he didn’t think anything of it until the next day, when he checked his account online and saw an unauthorized charge of $49 from the same movie theater, according to a Denton police report.

The man canceled the card with the Denton bank after two more unauthorized charges appeared from a Brooklyn, N.Y., pharmacy several days later. The man believes the movie theater clerk either photographed his credit card or was recording video when he passed the card over the cellphone, the police report states.

300 block of Jannie Street — Police and paramedics responded to a home Sunday morning after a man apparently stabbed himself in the abdomen following a fight with his common-law wife. The man, who was taken to the hospital for treatment, told paramedics that he’d been drinking alcohol and using cocaine, according to the police report.

6600 block of Grissom Road — Denton firefighters and Denton County sheriff’s deputies responded to an apparent arson fire Saturday at a bus stop shelter. A fire crew put out the blaze, which was believed to have started in a trash can inside the shelter, according to a sheriff’s office report.

1500 block of South Loop 288 — An employee of a retail store notified Denton police Sunday after a customer left a disc of photographs to be developed that included pornographic images of young boys. The case was under investigation.

LOWELL BROWN can be reached at 940-566-6882. His e-mail address is lmbrown@dentonrc.com .

Denton County Crime Stoppers will pay a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest in these or other crimes. Callers will remain anonymous. Call 1-800-388-TIPS (8477). Reach the Denton police narcotics tip line at 940-565-5801.