Video shows teen pull gun on Florida beach, run into Atlantic in standoff with deputies
Video shows a teenager allegedly waving a gun in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, before standing off with deputies after running into the water.
A teenager is being charged as an adult after he allegedly waved a gun on a Florida beach filled with spring breakers and then stood off with deputies who chased him into the Atlantic.
The incident in New Smyrna Beach, a city on Central Florida's Atlantic coast, happened Thursday afternoon when deputies patrolling the beach, populated with festive spring breakers, came across a fistfight, body camera video showed.
A crowd formed, and from it appeared to emerge a person waving a gun, the video released by the Volusia Sheriff’s Office showed. "He's got a gun," people in the crowd shouted.
The teen ran from deputies, who ordered him to drop the firearm, and ended up in the ocean steps away, the video showed.
Deputies trained their handguns on the suspect, who also had a bag in hand, before he was persuaded to drop his gun, raise his hands and come to dry sand to surrender peacefully, the sheriff's office said in a statement.
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