Toya Smith, 40 of Little Rock, claims IBF middleweight champion Jermain Taylor threatened to fatally shoot her 5, 3, and 1-year-old children, and that she knocked the gun away after Taylor allegedly put the weapon to her husband's head.

The incident took place during Little Rock's Martin Luther King Jnr. Day parade on Monday. Taylor, showcasing his world title, asked Smith get a photo with her son. Smith says her family had never met Taylor, who she felt was intoxicated.

Smith claims Taylor pulled out a gun and fired two shots into the air, after blaming her child for dropping his world title belt as they took a picture. He then allegedly put a gun to her husband's head and followed that up by cursing at the entire family and threatening to kill her husband and kids. 

"He bent down to give my son the belt and he almost fell over and dropped the belt, and he thought my baby dropped the belt," Smith said. "He put (the gun) up against (my husband's) temple, I jumped in front of it and it went off up into the air. He was going to shoot him, but I saw it, he was going to kill him and I had to hit the gun."

"He was pointing at the kids, so I jumped in front of him again and said 'Please don't shoot my kids."

As BoxingScene.com previously reported

, Taylor was arrested without incident. He faces charges of aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a minor and drug possession.

Thelton Smith, Toya's husband has since come forward with additional disturbing details surrounding Monday's incident.

“He put the gun upside my head. He shot the gun upside my head. They call that pistol whipping,” Smith said of the incident, which occurred while he was holding his one-year old daughter in his arms. “While (Toya) was in between us, he reached around like this and shot the gun upside my head while I got my daughter on my side. After he fired the one shot upside my head, he fired two more rounds in the air.”

According to a report on ArkansasMatters.com, Taylor at that point jumped into his SUV and fled the scene before being stopped a few blocks away. Taylor was then arrested and later charged.

“My kids, for the rest of their days, they're going to have to remember that daddy almost got killed by Jermain Taylor one of the most famous boxers in the world,” said Toya Smith of the horror that will remain with her children.