A Florida woman has been arrested after pulling a gun on two young boys attempting to fish in a pond close to her backyard, authorities say.
Donna Elkins, 59, reported two boys fishing in a pond by her backyard to police on Friday. Elkins reportedly called 911 and told dispatchers that she confronted the two boys and "petrified them", further explaining that she "stopped them and they were laying on the ground," reported Fox 35.
Authorities responded to a home on Royston Drive in Melbourne where they learned that, upon spotting the boys, Elkins pointed a long black pellet gun at them, ordered them to get on the ground, refused to let them leave and threatened to "blow their heads off."
The boys, who feared for their lives, complied with Elkins' orders and remained on the ground for about five minutes until Elkins' husband emerged from their house and de-escalated the situation, disarming Elkins.
Authorities reported that Elkins did not harm the boys and that they were not injured in the encounter. Two other children who witnessed the incident provided law enforcement with similar accounts of how events transpired.
"She said she was going to blow our brains out and that if we didn't listen to her, she would shoot — that she was going to blow our heads off," said 15-year-old Brayden, one of the boys Elkins threatened.
"In my head, it was a real gun," Brayden continued. "That she was going to shoot us and kill us and the fact that she was saying she was going to blow our heads off, you can't do that with a pellet gun. I really thought it was real."
Originally published on Latin Times
