Chattanooga police on Monday arrested two juvenile males after the boys allegedly pointed guns at a group of strangers at Greenway Farm in Hixson on Sunday evening.
Both boys, one 15 and one 16, are charged with aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a firearm, according to police. Authorities are not releasing the names of either the suspects or the alleged victims because all are juveniles.
A photo and short video clip sent to the Times Free Press by 18-year-old Emily Campbell, who witnessed the incident, and her father appear to show three teenagers, two of whom are pointing guns toward someone near the camera.
“We were just staring because they looked like little tiny kids,” she said. “They pulled out guns, so we were backing up, backing up, and freaking out.”
Police were called to the area at about 6:35 p.m. Sunday on a report of a disorder, according to Chattanooga Police Department spokeswoman Elisa Myzal. Police were told the victims were physically threatened at gunpoint by two males. Those males, along with another male juvenile who did not brandish a weapon, fled before police arrived.