A BB gun that a White Bear Lake teen brandished at last week’s Stillwater Area High School football game in Oak Park Heights “looked exactly like an actual” pistol, authorities said.
A group of students attending the game told a police officer around 8:15 p.m. Thursday that the boy had threatened them with a firearm, stating he was “gonna put a 9mm bullet in your skull” and told them to step outside the stadium, according to a juvenile petition.
He also allegedly said, “Don’t make me shoot your (expletive)” to a student who had made fun of his skinny jeans and pulled up his shirt to display the apparent pistol in his waistband, the petition stated.
Officers confronted the teen, who was standing in line to re-enter the stadium, and he ran into the stadium.
An officer “tackled him into a chain-link fence and onto the ground underneath the bleachers,” the petition said. “The (boy) landed on his back and reached towards the front of his waistband.” Two civilians helped officers control the teen until backup officers arrived.
The boy told officers he’s not a SAHS student and was at the game with his girlfriend, who attends the school. He said he ran “because he was scared of the police and knew he had the BB gun,” according to the petition. The BB gun’s magazine was empty.
The teen is charged with felony threats of violence, gross misdemeanor brandishing of a replica firearm or BB gun while on school property, and petty misdemeanor fleeing a peace officer by a means other than a motor vehicle.
The incident occurred a day after a shooter opened fire through the windows of Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, killing two children and wounding another 21 people celebrating Mass.
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