His 30-year-old father is accused of not properly storing the gun and of endangering a minor
A 4-year-old boy went to school with a loaded gun, authorities said today Texasa few days after a similar episode in Arizona.
On Wednesday morning, an off-duty police officer reported that “a 4-year-old student was in possession of a loaded handgun” at his elementary school. Corpus Christiaccording to police in that southern Texas city.
Police officers went to the child’s home and identified the gun’s owners, his parents. The father, age 30, was arrested and charged with making the firearm accessible to the child, as well as endangering a minor.
Mass shootings with firearms occur frequently in American schools. In May, in Uvalde, Texas, a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school. On Monday, a 7-year-old student went to school in Cochise, Arizona with a gun and bullets in his school bag. After the child’s father reported the disappearance of another of his guns, investigating officers found the second, hidden in the school. During questioning, the parents admitted that they had placed the weapons in places they considered safe, away from the children (…) but it appears that the young student managed to gain access and take them to the school,” the city sheriff said.
The child was referred to juvenile court.
About 400 million guns are in circulation USAi.e. more than the number of inhabitants of the country.
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