An Ocala man was jailed Thursday after allegedly threatening to kill himself, his lady friend and her family.

The woman told Marion County sheriff’s deputies that she and 26-year-old Ostin Lee Wriston were sitting on the couch when they got into a verbal altercation. She said Wriston went outside and came back with a small black handgun. She said he cocked it, put it to his head and made a threat to shoot himself, a sheriff’s report states.

The woman said Wriston also pointed the gun at her and said he would kill her and to “call the cops and tell them to bring 5 body bags,” the report says, noting that the woman’s parents and grandmother live in the home as well.

The woman said she called 911 and Wriston went outside and came back in without the gun. She said she hid in the bathroom because she was scared and he locked the door and stood in front of it so she couldn’t get out, the report says.

After being read his rights, Wriston denied the woman’s allegations and said the gun didn’t exist. A sheriff’s K-9 deputy and his dog responded to the residence and launched a search for the weapon. They found it a short time later in some tall brush just northeast of the residence at the end of a road. It was loaded with one round in the chamber and was accompanied by a holster, the report says.

Wriston was taken into custody and on the way to the Marion County Jail, he said he didn’t tell deputies where the gun was because “he was going to jail anyways and it did not matter,” the report says.

Wriston was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and kidnapping/false imprisonment. He was released late Friday morning on $7,000 bond and is due in court March 3 at 9 a.m.