GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — An 11-year-old boy was accused of trying to steal vehicles at gunpoint in Gainesville.
Alachua County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies had been known as to the Meadowbrook neighborhood on Tuesday, the place a sufferer informed them a boy pointed a gun at them and demanded they hand over their keys.
The boy left the realm, unsuccessful within the tried carjacking. One other individual reported an tried carjacking about an hour later.
Deputies related the incidents to an 11-year-old boy. In his room, detectives discovered what they described as “a small duplicate handgun, which was decided to be a novelty lighter.”
The boy was charged with armed carjacking with a firearm, and two counts of armed theft with a firearm.
