A 16-year-old Milledgeville resident is being held at the Regional Youth Development Center in Sandersville after he reportedly pointed a gun at his mother following an argument at their residence Thursday night.

No one reportedly was injured in the incident, local authorities said.

The teen was charged with pointing a gun at another and theft by taking, according to an incident report filed by Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jerome Roberts.

The youth cannot be publicly identified because he is considered a juvenile under Georgia law.

Roberts said in his report that while en route to a mobile home on Third Street shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday that he was informed that the teen had jumped out a bedroom window.

It followed an argument between the teen and his mother. The argument centered on a .380-caliber pistol, which had been taken from a locked safe belonging to one of the mother’s friends, who had asked her to keep it.

The mother told Roberts that she had placed the gun in her safe one other time, but later discovered it missing. When she went looking around the residence, she found it in her son’s bedroom. She said she took the gun back to the safe and locked it up.

King also said she phoned her son’s juvenile probation officer to report the previous incident.

The teen’s mother said she recently discovered the gun missing again, but when she went looking for it in her son’s bedroom she didn’t find it.

The latest argument happened when she confronted her son about the gun, Roberts said in his report. The mother said her other kids told her earlier that day they had seen the teen with a gun.

Roberts said the mother told him that the teen went into the waistband of his pants and grabbed the handgun before pointing it at her.

She said she put her hands up and suddenly her son jumped out a bedroom window.

The teen was eventually caught by a pair of deputy supervisors at the intersection of Third and Main streets.

His version of what happened earlier between him and his mother was different from his mother’s account.

He told Roberts he didn’t know anything about a gun and had jumped out of the window to avoid being beaten by his mother.

Deputies looked for the pistol, but were unsuccessful in their attempt to find it.