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Youngstown woman, 83, pleads not guilty to threatening grandson
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
An 83-year-old woman pleaded not guilty in municipal court to charges she shot a gun in the air and threatened to kill her grandson.
Alma Revis of Browning Avenue remains free on a $5,000 bond after she was arraigned Thursday before Judge Robert Milich on charges of discharging a firearm within city limits and aggravated menacing, both first-degree misdemeanors.
She was arrested about 1:25 p.m. Wednesday at a home in the 2400 block of Rosewood Avenue on the East Side after police responded to a call of a fight with a gun.
She was taken to the Mahoning County jail but later released on bond pending her arraignment.
She has agreed to have no contact with anyone involved in the incident at the Rosewood Avenue home, court records show.
Reports said police who arrived at the home found Revis, who was wearing clothing matching the description of the person who had a gun.
The officers asked her if she had a gun, and she told them she had a gun in her car.
Police found a loaded handgun in her purse, reports said, although they did not mention what kind of gun it was.
There was a bullet in the chamber of the gun ready to fire when it was found, reports said.
Revis told the officers she came to the home and found a woman there who was in a wheelchair and there was no one caring for her, which upset her.
Her grandson arrived at the home a short time later, and she pointed a gun at him and fired one shot into the air, reports said.
Reports said her grandson ran away when the gun was pointed, reports said.
Reports said the grandson told police he left the woman in the wheelchair, his girlfriend’s mother, at the home with a friend, who later left.
The grandson told police Revis threatened to kill him, reports said.
Reports said a witness also told police they saw Revis point a gun in the air and fire it.
No one was injured.
Revis is due back in court May 19.