A seven and 11-year-old boy pulled a loaded gun on an Oregon woman during an attempted carjacking and robbery outside a church parking lot, police said on Sunday.

Armed with a .22 caliber handgun, cocked and loaded, police in Portland say the described 11-year-old delinquent, seen back on the streets today, and his 7-year-old accomplice were caught while trying to flee on Saturday afternoon.

'They told me they were going to blow my brains out if I didn't give them something,' 22-year-old victim Amy Garrett recalled to KATU on Sunday while still visibly shaken.

Miss Garrett was parked outside the Freedom Foursquare Church waiting for her parents when the two boys, later recognized as occasionally attending the church while living nearby, approached her window.

It was a second request she denied.

'My heart was beating a million miles an hour. I definitely didn't think I was going to get out of there alive. I thought I was going to die,' she said.

The youngest of the two allegedly nudged to the other, 'show her your piece,' prompting the oldest to pull up his shirt where the weapon was revealed.


'He was showing me his gun and I asked him if it was real. He said: "You don't ever ask somebody if it's real. That's how you get yourself shot,"' she said.

When Miss Garrett refused to hand over her truck to the boys she says they demanded her wallet and phone, promising she wasn’t leaving unless they got something.

Putting her car in drive Miss Garrett says she sped off, leaving the boys behind her but not without catching sight of the 11-year-old pulling out the gun out from his pocket.

To what she's now calling a miracle, police moments before her attack received a similar call about children playing with a gun, prompting officers' immediate arrival.

Spotted just off the church's property, police say the boys tried to run away but both were caught, with the oldest boy described by police as lucky to have not mistakenly shot himself.

Miss Garrett called their release ‘the scary part,’ that forced her to relive her trauma once more on Sunday.

‘And, that is the kid right there,’ she told a reporter with KATU while standing outside her family’s church during an interview.


With Miss Garrett visibly trembling, the 11-year-old appeared unscathed and easy at her side, momentarily standing beside her until her rattled nerves forced her to step away.

'I don't want to be here right now,' she later said trembling while keeping her eyes in the direction the boy had come from and eventually retreated back to.

Because of the boy's young age the reporter was unable to speak with him and he did not return with his parents at KATU's request.

Detectives say they are investigating how the boys obtained the gun and that a Juvenile Court will follow up on the case.

'Woke up on the right side of the bed this morning, with a new perspective on life. I am beyond grateful to be alive today and i want you to know that i love you...all of you. Take the time to tell the people in your life that matter the most, exactly that. You truly never know what breath might be your last,' Miss Garrett wrote on her Facebook page on Sunday.

Source http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2245712/Amy-Garrett-Portland-woman-held-gunpoint-boys-aged-7-11-attempted-carjacking.html

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Nigerian 7 11yrs olds still play d 'dodging, fire, shootin' games we always yell from way back bt this days, american kids with real guns! Speechless.

Nigerian 7 11yrs olds still play d 'dodging, fire, shootin' games we always yell from way back bt this days, american kids with real guns! Speechless..