Post by King Ghidorah on Dec 20, 2012 9:47:27 GMT -5
A Utah sixth-grader brought a gun to school on Monday to defend himself in case a Sandy Hook copycat tried to shoot up his school, authorities said.
One girl said the unidentified 11-year-old pointed the pistol at her.
"At recess, he pointed a gun to my head and said he was going to kill me,” Isabel Rios, one of the boy’s classmates at West Kearns Elementary School, told Fox Salt Lake City.
The boy told his friends that his parents urged him to bring the unloaded .22 caliber pistol to school for protection following the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Conn., on Friday, the station reported.
Teachers didn't find out he had it until some students told them at around around 3 p.m., authorities said. Granite school district officials said the student was immediately removed from class until police arrived.
The gun was found in the boy's backpack. No one was injured.
The school wasn't placed on lockdown, and parents were told of the scare at around 5:30 p.m.
Some were ticked it took so long.
"There was no lockdown. No one was called. Nothing was done. And then we had to hear it from our kids,” West Kearns parent John Klaus told Fox Salt Lake City.
The boy was taken to a juvenile hall and was facing expulsion and possible criminal charges, the station said. West Kearns is about 20 minutes south of Salt Lake City.
www.nydailynews.com/news/national/scare-guns-found-s-high-school-article-1.1222587
One girl said the unidentified 11-year-old pointed the pistol at her.
"At recess, he pointed a gun to my head and said he was going to kill me,” Isabel Rios, one of the boy’s classmates at West Kearns Elementary School, told Fox Salt Lake City.
The boy told his friends that his parents urged him to bring the unloaded .22 caliber pistol to school for protection following the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Conn., on Friday, the station reported.
Teachers didn't find out he had it until some students told them at around around 3 p.m., authorities said. Granite school district officials said the student was immediately removed from class until police arrived.
The gun was found in the boy's backpack. No one was injured.
The school wasn't placed on lockdown, and parents were told of the scare at around 5:30 p.m.
Some were ticked it took so long.
"There was no lockdown. No one was called. Nothing was done. And then we had to hear it from our kids,” West Kearns parent John Klaus told Fox Salt Lake City.
The boy was taken to a juvenile hall and was facing expulsion and possible criminal charges, the station said. West Kearns is about 20 minutes south of Salt Lake City.
www.nydailynews.com/news/national/scare-guns-found-s-high-school-article-1.1222587
