Brothers Playing with Lego 'Rifle' Create Real Scare in Fairfield Neighborhood

Two brothers playing with a Lego “rifle” created quite a scene in the Dill Road-North Benson Road area on Tuesday night.

The Fairfield Citizen reports that police were alerted by a group of skateboarders that someone from inside a Dill Road home pointed a rifle at them.

Police took the threat seriously and shut down a stretch of North Benson Road from Dill Road to the Fairfield University campus entrance and diverted traffic, according to the Citizen.

With police outside the house where the alleged rifle was seen, and officers using a bullhorn in an attempt to contact the people inside, two boys, ages 11 and 12, emerged from the house, along with their 23-year-old brother and their grandmother, and showed police the weapon in question was actually built out of Legos, according to the Citizen.

Read the full report at the Fairfield Citizen here.

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