Teen arrested in Marietta, Georgia, after classmate learns of loaded gun in his backpack
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Georgia for allegedly bringing a loaded handgun to high school.
A classmate of the minor alerted college directors at Marietta Excessive Faculty on Thursday morning after studying that the suspect carried a weapon inside his backpack. Faculty useful resource officers then arrested the teenager at about 9.30am.
He was booked into the Marietta Regional Youth Detention Middle and charged with possession of a firearm on college property and possession of a firearm in fee of against the law. Marietta police stated they recovered a loaded Glock 19 handgun.
“Directors acted swiftly and notified the [school resource officers]. The scholar was taken into custody inside a classroom with out incident,” the police division stated in a statement. “Each dad or mum hopes that if offered with a scenario like this their youngster shall be courageous sufficient to report the incident instantly, and that’s precisely what transpired this morning.”
“As a result of reporting scholar’s bravery and swift decisive actions by the administration and SROs, the incident was resolved with out damage,” the assertion continued.
The college was briefly positioned on a “maintain”, Marietta Excessive Faculty Principal Marvin Crumbs stated in a letter obtained by 11 Alive.
“The scholar in query was instantly detained by MPD and, upon search of a backpack, a loaded gun was found,” Mr Crumbs wrote in the letter addressed to oldsters.
Mr Crumbs additionally praised the scholar who raised the alarm concerning the weapon, noting {that a} potential tragedy had been averted.
“I decide to you that we are going to proceed to make security our highest precedence,” Mr Crumbs added. “Day by day we work collaboratively with MPD to be sure that we now have the suitable security measures for all our MCS colleges — we’ll proceed this partnership for the protection of our workers and college students.”
