(KMOV) -- An outing to sell Girl Scout cookies turns dangerous for a St. Louis firefighter and his daughter.

They claim that an elderly neighbor chased them with a loaded shotgun.

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Terry Tedder, father of girl scout, explains to News 4 what he and his daughter experienced.

Terry Tedder says that on Tuesday night he took his 8-year-old daughter around their south St. Louis neighborhood to sell Girl Scout cookies.

It was supposed to be a fun outing for the father and daughter.

Tedder says that after they knocked on the front door of one neighbor's house in the 4400 block of Hamburg, it was the scariest time of their lives.

At first, the veteran St. Louis firefighter says he didn't think anyone was at the house.

As he and his daughter were leaving, Tedder says that a 78-year-old woman opened her door, and pointed a shotgun at him and his daughter, then chased them with the loaded weapon.

He and his daughter ran for their lives.

No one came to the door when News 4 visited home on Thursday. Someone did, however, close the blinds while we were there.

Meanwhile, Tedder has filed a police report.

The alleged, shotgun-flourishing 78-year-old is now charged with a crime.

No shots were fired during the incident and no one was hurt.

Police did confiscate the shotgun that the neighbor has owned for 12 years.

Investigators say that the neighbor told them she came to the door with the weapon because recently a stranger had been harassing her.