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Boy, 11, Brought Gun To Elementary School And Threatened Classmate

December 19, 2012 at 9:43 am by  

Boy, 11, Brought Gun To Elementary School And Threatened ClassmateKEARNS, UT - An 11-year-old boy will face charges after he brought a .22 caliber handgun to school and threatened to kill a classmate.

The unidentified sixth-grader at West Kearns Elementary reportedly pulled the gun from his backpack during morning recess. He showed the gun off to classmates, telling them his parents had encouraged him to bring the gun in light of the Sandy Hook shootings.

When a fellow student threatened to tell on him, the boy allegedly aimed the gun at her head then threatened to kill her if she didn’t keep yer trap shut.

“He pulled out a gun and he put it to my head — me and my friend — (and) said he was going to kill us,” Isabelle Rios said. “I told him I was going to tell, but he said, ‘If you tell, I’m going to kill you.’”

So Isabelle kept her mouth shut until around 3:00 that afternoon when she finally told a teacher. That teacher immediately took the boy into physical custody and retrieved the unloaded gun, along with some ammo, from the boy’s back pack. He was taken to the principal’s office and police were called.

The boy was placed in juvenile hall and has been suspended from school. Criminal charges are expected to be filed against him by the end of the week. Police are also investigating how the boy got the gun, and what involvement his parents may have played, if any.

Some parents kept their kids out of school the following day and expressed their frustration with the school for the way they handled the situation.

“There was no lockdown. No one was called. Nothing was done. And then we had to hear it from our kids,” said John Klaus, the father of a student at West Kearns Elementary.

But Granite School District Spokesman Ben Horsley said they didn’t feel there was need for any of that because the situation was handled so quickly and they did not want to panic students.

“Once the teacher knew there was a weapon in the classroom, the student was apprehended in 30 to 45 seconds and immediately brought down to the office and the police were on site within five to 10 minutes,” said Horsley.

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    • Whatevn

      While they didnt need to do a lock down,(though, I always thought it was required?)
      they could have sent an auto phone call to all parents, explaining what happened. I mean, having a gun brought to school and only being heard about from your child is scary stuff.

    • JGo555

      How can anyone react IF NO ADULT KNEW ANYTHING except for those two “masterminds” that will now have charges pressed against?

    • OutOfBubbleGum

      Final Jeopardy

      Answer:
      Originally believed to be in New York, Chicago, or Philadelphia, the infamous Mafia Hired Killers Academy would be found there.

      Question:
      Where is Kearns, UT?

    • unholyheck

      Maybe a note home would have been better than a auto phone call. You gotta think that if they made a phone call, even if they confirmed at the beginning of the call everything is ok, mass chaos would ensue at the school with parents barging through the doors and running the halls to find their children. In the panic a lot of people including the kids could be hurt or trampled.

      On another note, I’m glad nobody was hurt, and if it is true that the parents sent him to school with the gun then they need to be publicly beaten. I understand wanting your kid to be safe, but that could be like throwing fuel on a fire.

    • JohnQknowitall

      Are there are actually guidelines for this sort of thing? I doubt seriously if anything rational can be put together so soon after the horrific event last week. (BTW China had a similar incident last week: http://www.voanews.com/content/china-fires-6-officials-for-mishandling-school-attack/1567065.html)

    • sugarpie

      If my little girl was the brave one to tell the teacher, I might be moving to a new school district. I can’t imagine what she might have to endure if the little monster comes back to school.

    • Sam

      Wow. Well, if his parents really did tell him to bring the gun to school, he’s got bigger problems than a bit of a spell in juvie and being suspended from school. Maybe this is the boy’s chance to get away from such a bad influence.

    • Eliza Berntsen

      My thoughts exactly.

    • Andyman

      I graduated from high school in the early 90′s and I had a friend in the neighborhood who decided to bring a gun to school and show it off. It was confiscated and he was sent to something called “the school for excluded students.” I haven’t kept up with him over the years but I really wonder what the true impact is for a kid who was ordinarily a good kid who made a bad decision and how his life was subsequently impacted. Hindsight will kill you, although if you know where to get a Chrystal ball, let me in on it would you?

    • t0ofly

      I remember in 6th grade I had this teacher twice a day, once for math once for a class called “Strategy Games.” At the end of the day he was talking about going to the shooting range with another teacher and then went to his closet and got a dufflebag with about 6 rifles and 2 handguns. He showed them off to us and told us what they were… like reverse show and tell. I couldn’t even imagine what would happen if a teacher tried to do that today.

    • Whatevn

      I only said phone call because, if the gun was found at 3:00, kids are going home before a note could be sent home. There really couldnt be much panic, when the kids are already home safe.

    • newstarshipsmell

      See now, if the girl had been trained, licensed, and allowed to carry a concealed weapon to school, she could have immediately eliminated this threat, instead of living in terror all day long. But since she was unarmed, she and her friends should have rushed him.

    • Wolf_of_Mars

      When I went to HS, more teachers than not had full gun racks in their pickup trucks. Almost all of the male teachers did, too…

    • alphatroll

      The scary part is there are morons who will not only take that at face value, but AGREE WITH IT.

    • MyHovercraftIsFullofEels

      We used to have gun safety classes 2x a year when I was in elementary school. A boy who later committed suicide (in 1990) did bring a duffle bag with a loaded shotgun and a bottle of whiskey to school in 8th grade (1987). He got suspended for a month. It was only discovered because our teacher threw the duffle bag to the side of the room when it was blocking the row between desks and the whiskey bottle broke. Nothing else happened, no school evacuation, nothing.

    • Jessica Stewart

      Jeebus! Did he not have a trunk on his car? Even if he was going shooting after work why wouldn’t he just leave them in his car?

    • ShelbySP

      Yesterday at my mom’s school, a first grader brought 2 bottles of Crown Royal in her backpack. Parents here in Wyandotte County teach different coping strategies.