A Florida woman was busted for allegedly holding two boys at gunpoint and repeatedly threatening to “blow their heads off” in a maniacal uproar after she found the teens fishing in a pond near her backyard.
Donna Elkins, 59, was arrested Friday after she brandished a long black pellet gun and ordered the 13- and 15-year-olds to the ground while telling police on the phone she had “petrified them,” “stopped them” and had them “laying on the ground” of her Melbourne yard, according to Fox 13 and one victim’s family.
“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, told the outlet of the terrifying incident.
The boys laid on the ground in fear for their lives — unaware the weapon was a pellet gun — for about five minutes until Elkins’ husband exited the home and disarmed her, according to 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 determined the boys, who were not physically harmed, were fishing on a peninsula near a pond located roughly 30 feet from the gun-toting lunatic’s property line, the outlet reported.
One of the teens also managed to capture the wild events on camera, which their outraged families then blasted on social media. Two other children also witnessed the berserk encounter, Fox 13 reported.
“Do you get people in your backyard?” a frenzied Elkins screamed at the victims, according to 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 Facebook post Saturday, Brayden’s father, Mike Jones, slammed Elkins for holding his son at gunpoint and forcing him to the ground with a broken arm. He said Brayden is now experiencing back and shoulder pain, with an appointment scheduled with their pediatric surgery team.
The teen’s mother, Kristie Scarberry, said her son deserves justice.
“I could never say enough how proud I am of my sweet boy,” Scarberry said in a Facebook post 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 back in court April 22.
