Authorities say a 9-year-old student brought a loaded gun to a New Jersey elementary school.
Lakewood police say the .22-caliber handgun was found in the student’s backpack around 9 a.m. Tuesday. Authorities say another student told security about the gun, and suspect was stopped as he walked into the building on Oak Street.
Surveillance video, obtained exclusively by CBS2, shows the child playing with the gun on board a Seman-Tov bus enroute to school, along with a 10-year-old. They appeared to load a magazine with bullets, before placing the loaded gun back in the child’s backpack.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the students obtained the gun, and no names were released. Both children were charged with possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon on school grounds.
Authorities say the incident remains under investigation.
In a letter to the Lakewood Board of Education, District Superintendent Laura Winters said police told her the student stated he had been bringing the “loaded” gun to school every day to “protect” themselves.
(YWN / AP)
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metal detectors , good start. I believe other lakewood schools have them already, (dont quote me on that, it’s an old memory from probably 2009 or so)
Litvish kids or chassidish?
What’s going on here? These are frum kids going to a frum school? And they feel they have to bring a gun to school to “protect” themselves? What on earth are they hearing at home that leads them to think that way?
Check out the parents. a) Are the guns legal? b) Why aren’t they secured so the kids can’t get them? c) Are they sane? What are they saying in front of the kids to make them feel that way?
On the other hand, if they’ve heard anything about what’s happening in the rest of the country, maybe they’re being realistic. Whatever happens “out there” sooner or later happens to us too. Now that there are frum homes with guns, it’s CH’V only a matter of time until we have a shooting too. Remember when it was assumed that frum kids would never do drugs?
MW, Do they really look frum, that you asking?
Gaon – sorry, you’re right, I hadn’t watched the video. Not exactly cheder boys, but not your regular delinquent type either. And my second point still holds. There are now frum yidden who keep guns in the house. At what point is some child CH”V going to find one and get hurt or hurt a sibling? We feel so threatened by what’s “out there” that we bring even more dangerous threats into our homes.
MW; Where on earth did you get the idea that they are frum kids? From the name of the bus company? I can guarantee you that if they were frum it would be prominently mentioned?