DETROIT – A Detroit high school student has been charged after he brought a BB gun to school and pulled it out during class, officials said.
The 15-year-old Detroit boy brought the BB gun to Marygrove High School on Tuesday (May 24), according to authorities. He was taken into custody Wednesday.
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“We are all hypersensitive right now about deadly weapons being brought into schools and the carnage that can occur as a result,” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said. “The alleged actions of this respondent simply cannot be tolerated. We are alleging that this weapon was displayed and later discovered to be a BB gun. This does not diminish the severity of this respondent’s actions.”
Officials charged the boy as a juvenile with possession of a weapon in a weapons-free school zone.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility.
