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Boy, 15, caught with loaded gun at high school
Latest in string of incidents brings call for answers
By Alison Soltau
Staff Writer
Published: Monday, May 2, 2005 11:16 PM PDT
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A high school student is in custody after a loaded gun was found in his backpack and three students have been suspended for allegedly discussing a gun sale, in separate incidents at two city schools, according to police.
A 15-year-old Mission High School sophomore was charged on Monday with possessing a .38-caliber handgun on campus, after a fellow student alerted authorities to the weapon, school officials confirmed.
In the second case, police were called to Thurgood Marshall Academic High School last week after a teacher reported overhearing two female and one male student discussing a gun sale, said Gang Task Force Lt. John Murphy.
One student asked the 14-year-old girl if she "was sellin'," and the girl replied, "yeah, I got a .38," according to a police report. No weapon was found on campus and the youths denied the incident happened, police said. The pair and another student were suspended, according to school official.
The grandfather of the female student told police he suspected his granddaughter had stolen his .380-gauge semiautomatic gun and .38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver, Murphy said. Police said the girl told her grandfather she sold both guns, but she returned the .380-gauge revolver. It wasn't clear if the second weapon was recovered.
The incidents come after rival youth gangs engaged in a gun battle that killed John O'Connell High School student Javon King on a Bayview District street on April 8, in what homicide investigators said stemmed partly from a fight that day at Mission High School.
San Francisco Board of Education President Eric Mar said he was concerned at the recent "rash of events" and would ask the school district to see if it could identify any trends or problems, and make recommendations to the board.
Following the shooting death of Balboa High student DeShawn Dawson on a Municipal Railway bus in 2003, measures such as metal detectors and transparent backpacks in schools were debated. Board member Dan Kelly and Mar said Monday such measures only induced anxiety. Instead, they advocated increasing counseling and after-school programs.
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Boy, 15, caught with loaded gun at high school
Latest in string of incidents brings call for answers
By Alison Soltau
Staff Writer
Published: Monday, May 2, 2005 11:16 PM PDT
E-mail this story | Print this page
A high school student is in custody after a loaded gun was found in his backpack and three students have been suspended for allegedly discussing a gun sale, in separate incidents at two city schools, according to police.
A 15-year-old Mission High School sophomore was charged on Monday with possessing a .38-caliber handgun on campus, after a fellow student alerted authorities to the weapon, school officials confirmed.
In the second case, police were called to Thurgood Marshall Academic High School last week after a teacher reported overhearing two female and one male student discussing a gun sale, said Gang Task Force Lt. John Murphy.
One student asked the 14-year-old girl if she "was sellin'," and the girl replied, "yeah, I got a .38," according to a police report. No weapon was found on campus and the youths denied the incident happened, police said. The pair and another student were suspended, according to school official.
The grandfather of the female student told police he suspected his granddaughter had stolen his .380-gauge semiautomatic gun and .38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver, Murphy said. Police said the girl told her grandfather she sold both guns, but she returned the .380-gauge revolver. It wasn't clear if the second weapon was recovered.
The incidents come after rival youth gangs engaged in a gun battle that killed John O'Connell High School student Javon King on a Bayview District street on April 8, in what homicide investigators said stemmed partly from a fight that day at Mission High School.
San Francisco Board of Education President Eric Mar said he was concerned at the recent "rash of events" and would ask the school district to see if it could identify any trends or problems, and make recommendations to the board.
Following the shooting death of Balboa High student DeShawn Dawson on a Municipal Railway bus in 2003, measures such as metal detectors and transparent backpacks in schools were debated. Board member Dan Kelly and Mar said Monday such measures only induced anxiety. Instead, they advocated increasing counseling and after-school programs.
E-mail: [email protected]
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