15-year-old Boy brings handgun to Mount Tahoma High School | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA
No one was injured and the gun was not fired, Tacoma police spokeswoman Gretchen Aguirre said.
The 10th-grader was booked into Remann Hall juvenile jail on suspicion of bringing a dangerous weapon on school grounds.
Tacoma police were trying to determine where he got the revolver and what – if anything – he planned to do with it.
“We’re just not getting a lot of information,” Aguirre said.
Officers interviewed several other students about the incident.
“It was an isolated incident,” Aguirre said.
The student had been suspended from Mount Tahoma High School, 4634 S. 74th St., Tacoma, and forbidden to return to the campus. On Monday morning, a teacher spotted him in the building, Tacoma School District spokeswoman Stacy Flores said.
The teacher knew the student had been suspended and notified an off-duty Tacoma police officer working at the school, Tacoma schools spokeswoman Leanna Albrecht said.
The officer stopped the student, who had already left the building, and searched him. The officer “found a loaded handgun on him,” Aguirre said.
The school was in a lockdown for nearly two hours as officers investigated. The lockdown was lifted around noon, and students were dismissed at 12:15 p.m., nearly two hours early.
In addition, all afternoon activities and practices were canceled, Albrecht said.
School officials sent out a telephone message to Mount Tahoma parents and posted the early dismissal information on schoolreport.org. They plan to send a letter home with the students today.
Classes and activities will be back to normal today, officials said.
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