Toronto police have arrested a man for allegedly threatening a student with a shotgun on their way to school in North York Wednesday morning.

Police got a call at around 10:30 a.m. to the area of Starview Lane and Weston Road.

“A student who was on their way to school advised us that someone had pulled out a shotgun on them and threatened them,” Const. Victor Kwong said.

According to Kwong, officers spoke to the victim and heard from multiple witnesses at a nearby school.

The incident did not take place at the school.

Toronto police first tweeted about incident around 3 p.m., several hours after it happened, saying the delay was for “safety reasons.”

In a tweet, Kwong said police sometimes delay notifying the public when “they know where the suspect is, and they don’t want that person to know that.”

The investigation is ongoing.