Two 14-year-olds have been charged after an alleged incident that occurred Thursday involving a duplicate handgun and threats in Amherstview, close to Kingston, Ont., in keeping with the Ontario provincial Police (OPP).
Police say they obtained a name round 6 p.m., reporting two boys had entered two shops on Manitou Crescent, making threats through the use of what seemed to be a handgun.
As they had been leaving the primary retailer, they displayed handgun, threatening one particular person, police say.
“They then entered a close-by drug retailer the place they held the handgun in an people face and pulled the set off. They then started pointing the weapon at different individuals and pulling the set off,” the OPP stated in a publish on X Friday.
“In every case, there was no precise gunshot. The youths then fled from the shop.”
Police additionally obtained studies claiming the 2 boys had aimed the handgun at a passing automotive on Sherwood Avenue.
No accidents had been reported.
Within the social media publish, the OPP requested the general public for assist in figuring out the 2 boys.
That was when the they got here ahead.
They had been charged on Saturday with assault with a weapon, possession of imitation weapon for a harmful goal, mischief- intervene with use of property, imitation firearm- use whereas committing offence, uttering threats to trigger demise or bodily hurt and theft with intent.
The 14-year-olds are scheduled to seem in youth courtroom at a later date. The 2 youths’ names can’t be launched below the phrases of the Youth Legal Justice Act.
“Whereas it seems the handgun was a toy or duplicate, the OPP is taking this matter very critically. A duplicate handgun, used throughout the fee of an offence, is taken into account the identical as utilizing an actual weapon,” the OPP added.
Amherstview is adjoining to town of Kingston and is taken into account a part of the Better Kingston space.
