A Florida lady was busted for allegedly holding two boys at gunpoint and repeatedly threatening to “blow their heads off” in a maniacal uproar after she discovered the teenagers fishing in a pond close to her yard.
Donna Elkins, 59, was arrested Friday after she brandished an extended black pellet gun and ordered the 13- and 15-year-olds to the bottom whereas telling police on the cellphone she had “petrified them,” “stopped them” and had them “laying on the ground” of her Melbourne yard, in keeping with Fox 13 and one sufferer’s household.
“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,” eighth-grader Brayden, 15, instructed the outlet of the terrifying incident.
The boys laid on the bottom in concern for his or her lives — unaware the weapon was a pellet gun — for about 5 minutes till Elkins’ husband exited the house and disarmed her, in keeping with a police report.
“In my head, it was a real gun,” Brayden added.
“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. What she did was wrong.”
Authorities decided the boys, who weren’t bodily harmed, had been fishing on a peninsula close to a pond situated roughly 30 toes from the gun-toting lunatic’s property line, the outlet reported.
One of many teenagers additionally managed to seize the wild occasions on digital camera, which their outraged households then blasted on social media. Two different kids additionally witnessed the berserk encounter, Fox 13 reported.
“Do you get people in your backyard?” a frenzied Elkins screamed on the victims, in keeping with the footage, with one responding, “Sometimes ma’am.”
“Because if someone goes in your backyard, you can blow their f–king heads off. I have a right to protect my property and my house. So you ain’t coming back ever!”
In a Fb publish Saturday, Brayden’s father, Mike Jones, slammed Elkins for holding his son at gunpoint and forcing him to the bottom with a damaged arm. He stated Brayden is now experiencing again and shoulder ache, with an appointment scheduled with their pediatric surgical procedure staff.
The teenager’s mom, Kristie Scarberry, stated her son deserves justice.
“I could never say enough how proud I am of my sweet boy,” Scarberry stated in a Fb publish Monday.
“There aren’t enough words for how broken my heart is to watch him go through this or how disgusted I am that it happened at all. The amount of damage one person can do in a matter of minutes is appalling. But my boy… He’s strong, brave, resilient… even more so than I could have imagined,” she continued.
“This isn’t going to be an easy journey for him but he has so many people behind him. We aren’t letting this go. He deserves to see justice served and we can’t image letting this happen to another child.”
Elkins was booked at Brevard County Jail in Cocoa and charged with two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of false imprisonment.
She reportedly posted a $25,000 bond and is due again in court docket April 22.
