A 15-year-old teen was arrested early Monday morning after menacing his grandmother with what turned out to be a toy gun.

The teen, whose name has not been released, was threatening his 77-year-old grandmother for about five hours, according to Colorado Springs Police Department’s Sgt. Eric Anderson. She was eventually able to escape from the residence, on the 3000 block of Squaw Valley Drive, and called the police at about 2 a.m. from a neighbor’s house.

After police arrived, they set up a containment unit around the home to make sure the teen did not escape. After a standoff that lasted several hours, the incident ended peacefully and the teen was taken into custody.

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Bryan Oller