A juvenile male was arrested yesterday morning after an unsettling incident involving a school bus in Phoenix. The Phoenix Police Department reported that the boy was seen pointing a gun at the bus filled with students, prompting immediate police response and a school lockdown. According to FOX 10 Phoenix, the incident occurred near 16th Avenue and Bethany Home Road on Sept. 10, around 8:10 a.m.

Witnesses, reportedly seeing the boy with the gun as the school bus was driving away, swiftly contacted authorities. The nearby school was placed on lockdown as a precaution while the suspect was quickly found by police. Inside an apartment located not far from the scene, the police discovered the suspect, according to 12News.

"Officers responded and learned that the juvenile male suspect was in an argument with a student using the bus and after the victim entered the bus to leave, the suspect brandished a handgun and pointed it at the school bus. No shots were fired," Phoenix Police Sgt. Brian Bower explained in a statement obtained by FOX 10 Phoenix. The juvenile, believed to have been involved in a verbal altercation with a bus-using student before the incident, has been taken into custody without further incident.

While the investigation into the motivation behind the incident is ongoing, police believe the suspect produced the firearm during the dispute with the aforementioned student. After concluding the search, the school which had been under lockdown, unrelated to the incident, returned to its normal operation schedule. The identity of the juvenile suspect has not been disclosed.