An elderly man accused of pulling a gun out and threatening a 12-year-old says he didn’t make any threats, a day after getting out of jail.

Elso Rodriguez, 84, was arrested by police at his apartment located near the 100 block of West 26th Street in Hialeah, Oct. 4.

“You were arrested for aggravated assault with a firearm,” Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Mindy S. Glazer told the man in bond court.

After bonding out, he told 7News at his home in Spanish that the allegations against him are false.

“I never pointed at the kid, I never talked with the kid or with the mother either,” said Rodriguez.

He claims a child living in the building next door had been a menace, knocking on his windows and doors and then running away.

“The kid was running on the street and knocked on my door,” he sa

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