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Monroe Teen Charged With Weapon Possession At School
May
9, 2014 From
Allison Selman-Willis, MCSO Sheriff
J.C. Bittick said the Monroe County Sheriff's Office is investigating
an incident that occurred Wednesday at Monroe County Middle School
which involved a toy that closely resembled a real handgun.
The student, a 13 year-old male, has been charged as a juvenile with possession of a weapon on school grounds and disruption of a public school. He was left in his mother's custody. �The
Sheriff's Office was notified yesterday that a seventh grade student
took a handgun to school the previous day and showed the weapon to
several friends,� Bittick said in a prepared statement Friday
afternoon. �After a preliminary investigation, MCSO investigators
determined that the gun was an Airsoft gun, not an actual handgun.�
Bittick said Airsoft guns use compressed air to shoot tiny plastic pellets that are similar in size and shape to BBs. Usually the guns have red tipped barrels, but the Airsoft gun that the student had did not have that. �Investigators searched the student's home and found the Airsoft gun hidden in a drawer,� the Sheriff concluded.
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