A teenager was taken into custody in Colorado Springs after “terrorizing” his grandmother for several hours, holding her at bay with a gun that turned out to be a plastic toy, police said.
The incident concluded early this morning in the 3000 block of Squaw Valley Drive, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department crime blotter.
Police were called at about 2 a.m. to a home on a report that a 15-year-old boy had threatened his 77-year-old grandmother with a gun.
The victim had escaped the home and called police. When officers arrived they set up a containment perimeter around the residence.
“After numerous attempts to contact the suspect and after learning that the reported gun was a plastic, toy gun,” officers went into the home and took the teen suspect in to custody.
Details on the victim’s injuries, if any, were not released.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
