Boy with toy gun prompts police response
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 26/03/2011 (5571 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The gun that prompted police to surround an apartment block this afternoon turned out to be a toy.
Police said they didn’t know that when they went to the apartment block in the 400-block of 10th Street at 4:36 p.m. today. The initial report was that someone had pointed a gun or guns from an upper-storey window.
Not taking chances, officers armed with a shotgun, handguns and an automatic rifle blocked off the street and alley beside the home and evacuated occupants from other suites in the building.
Unable to contact the people inside, officers entered a third-floor apartment around 5:50 p.m. to find a three-year-old boy and a woman who was his babysitter. Officers learned the child had been pointing a toy handgun at people as they passed by the apartment block.
No-one was hurt in the incident.
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