SANTA ANA – An off-duty LAPD officer “endangered the safety” of a group of Anaheim juveniles in a neighborhood scuffle nearly a year ago, but there isn’t enough evidence to charge him with a crime, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday.

The confrontation between Kevin Ferguson and a 13-year-old boy on Feb. 21, 2017 quickly drew widespread attention after videos of the altercation spread across social media. The videos show Ferguson struggling with the teenagers before discharging his handgun into the ground.

It isn’t clear in the video if Ferguson fired the weapon on purpose. The shot appeared to go downward, and no one was struck.

(Warning: Foul language in video)

Police have said the confrontation began over ongoing issues with teenagers walking across the officer’s property at his home in the 1600 block of West Palais Road, near Euclid Street.

Anaheim police previously indicated that the off-duty officer apparently confronted the boy and tried to detain him after believing the juvenile made threats to shoot him. A teenager who witnessed the incident has said it may have been a misunderstanding.

“The little kid said, ‘I’m going to sue you,’ and then the guy thought he said, ‘I’m going to shoot you,’ “ a teenager who said he witnessed the incident has said. “That’s when he started grabbing the little kid.”

It is unclear whether Ferguson identified himself to the teens as an officer. However, Anaheim police have said that voices can be heard on a video debating whether he was an officer, which suggests he had indeed IDed himself.

The Los Angeles Police Department was conducting its own internal investigation into Ferguson’s actions.

The Anaheim Police Department spend several hundred hours during its investigation of the case, which it handed over to the District Attorney’s Office in June. Officers did more than 90 interviews, viewed various videos and collected other evidence, ending up with more than 400 pages in reports and about 70 CDs and DVDs.

This story is developing.