A Tamaqua woman is facing a multitude of charges after she threatened another woman with a gun in the presence of middle and high school students on Jan. 6, according to Tamaqua police.

Police said the incident involving Shiane Follweiler, 29, of Hazle Street, happened on the 100 block of Penn Street at 2:30 p.m., just after the Tamaqua Area School District dismissed classes for the day.

Police said several middle and high school students witnessed the incident.

According to police, officers responded to a report of an assault from a woman who said Follweiler drove alongside of her and pulled a gun. The woman was with her children, police said, and Follweiler had students in her vehicle.

The woman told police that an armed Follweiler said, “What are you going to do? I’ll take care of you guys now.”

On Jan. 10, police again spoke to the woman, who provided a video of the incident to them. She told police that Follweiler drove up alongside of her, began yelling and reached into the glove box. The woman and Follweiler had once been friends, so the woman knew Follweiler kept a firearm in her vehicle, police said.

After threatening the woman with the gun, Follweiler spat at her. Police said the woman admitted to trying to spit back.

“When Follweiler pulled her gun on her, (the victim) tried to move her (child) out of the way,” police wrote in their affidavit of probable cause.

Police later interviewed the four minors who were in Follweiler’s vehicle, and three of them reported seeing a gun. It was later determined that a few of the minors who witnessed the after-school incident were involved in an altercation during the school day.

Police and Tamaqua Area School District Police executed a search warrant at Follweiler’s home and vehicle on Jan. 13. Police said they recovered two handguns.

Follweiler faces misdemeanor charges of terroristic threats, possession of a weapon, simple assault, disorderly conduct and harassment.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled Feb. 14 before Magisterial District Judge Stephen Bayer, Tamaqua.