NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla.(WSVN)– A Florida man is facing charges after being accused of threatening teens with a gun in a heated confrontation on the water.
Christopher Evensen faces five felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, among other charges.
The 43-year-old was arrested after teens who created a wake in a waterway in New Smyrna Beach said he threatened to shoot them.
Nearby witness Kevin Buchans said he didn’t see the gun, but did see Evensen shouting at the teens.
“He was threatening them all, ‘Come over here to the boat ramp, come park your boat, and I’ll kill all y’all,'” said Buchans.
The police report describes a video of Evensen, taken by one of the teens during the altercation, stating that he reached into his pocket, grabbing a silver and black item, resembling the shape of a semi-automatic handgun.
Several of the teens present said that Evensen did point a gun at them.
“He’s an adult, he should know better,” said Buchans.
Police learned about this incident after Buchans had called authorities about a different incident concerning Evensen.
Moments after shouting at the teens, Buchans said, Evensen turned to him and offered him some whiskey.
“I told him that, ‘That might be why you’re in an argument with these other people in the boat, because you sound like you’ve had too much to drink already,’ is what I told him,” said Buchans.
Evensen told police he did yell at the kids and acted quote “stupid,” but said he didn’t even have a gun with him.
At first, Evensen had told police he didn’t own a gun at all, though he later admitted that was not true.
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