Two Black boys who were riding their bikes in a neighborhood in Peach County, Georgia, say a white woman pulled a gun on them Sunday afternoon.

According to NBC41, Patricia Compton was driving a black car when she approached 12-year-old Caleb Barnes and his best friend 13-year-old Ethan Hollis as the two boys stopped to listen out for animal noises in the Autumn Cove subdivision where they both live. 

“The lady pulled up in the driveway, and she came in really fast,” Hollis told  NBC 41. “She got out of the car, and we got scared. I started running, and then she said, ‘Freeze a*sholes before I shoot.’”

The children said they were frightened and shocked when Compton brandished a firearm. 

"My friend Ethan started running, and I just stood there and said, 'Don't shoot, don't shoot, I'm a kid,' and I tripped on those rocks," Barnes recalled. 

Hollis raced back to his friend’s grandparents’ home, located in the subdivision, to inform them of what occurred. 

Barnes’ grandmother Venita Kennedy wasted no time coming to her grandson’s aid. WMAZ reported the matriarch pulled out her cellphone to livestream the incident on Facebook. 

Ironically, the boys weren’t strangers to Compton. Hollis’ grandfather, Willie Willis told NBC 41 that the families of both boys knew the neighbor and that there hadn’t been any prior issues. 

“We haven’t ever had any problems out of her. Nothing whatsoever. It surprised me to find out she did this. She knows these kids,” Willis said. 

Compton, who was arrested by deputies on the scene, told responding officers that she was acting in self-defense after being told of trespassers on her property. She was detained at the county jail until a relative posted her bond later that evening.  

According to WMAZ, Peach County Sheriff Terry Deese said he didn’t buy Compton’s self-defense claim because she was never in danger. Police arrested the woman again on Monday for additional charges, including aggravated assault, child cruelty and terroristic threats.

"The basics of it is you have to feel threatened that somebody's about to do you serious bodily injury or death or serious damage to property," Deese said.

Earlier this year, roughly three hours away from Peach County, another young Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, was jogging in a Glynn County neighborhood when a white father and son duo fatally shot him after saying they thought he was burglarizing homes in the area, as Blavity previously reported.