Boy, 11, says he was threatened at gunpoint near home

SAN CARLOS PARK, Fla. — Bradley Nelson, 11, thought he was going to die.

Instead, he pedaled away as fast as he could on his bicycle and escaped from someone he said threatened him with a gun and demanded he hand over the bike Thursday.

“A car pulls in front of me and then they said ‘give me the effing bike’ and then they pulled a gun on me,” Bradley said.

Surveillance video shows an SUV approaching him as he rides through his neighborhood in San Carlos Park. Bradley took off to a neighbor’s home for safety.

Once informed, his mom dialed 911. Meanwhile, his father took a disturbing phone call.

“While I was at work, my son called me hysterically crying and I’m like, ‘Brad, is everything all right?'” Daniel Nelson said. “He’s like, “No daddy. Somebody pulled a gun on me.'”

The same SUV stopped at a neighbor’s house immediately after the incident. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the vehicle and whoever made the alleged threat.

The affair has left its mark on Bradley, who said he woke up four times Thursday night because of nightmares.

“It was like the same thing, but in a dream,” Bradley said.

He’s not the only one who found it frightening.

“It’s very scary,” his father said. “You really don’t know what to expect. You never think about that happening to you or your family, so when it does, it’s like … it’s a scary thing. You don’t know how to really react.”