Father charged after 4-year-old allegedly brought loaded gun to school
As the new school year ramps up across much of the country a 4-year-old student allegedly arrived at a Texas elementary school with a loaded handgun, prompting
As the new school year ramps up across much of the country a 4-year-old student allegedly arrived at a Texas elementary school with a loaded handgun, prompting a lockdown and resulting in charges against their father.
The child brought the gun to John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Corpus Christi Wednesday morning. School officials learned about the weapon on campus at 9 a.m., the West Oso Independent School District said in a statement.
So far this year, there has been at least 181 unintentional shootings by children, resulting in 77 deaths and 115 injuries across the U.S., according to a count by Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun violence prevention nonprofit.
As the nation still reels from the events in Uvalde, Texas which saw the deaths of 19 children and 2 teachers by a mass shooter, the school enacted lockdown procedures and a Corpus Christi police officer on duty at the campus “quickly took possession” of the gun and secured it, district officials said.
District administrators and additional officers from the police department arrived to assist with the lockdown.
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