WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A 14-year-old student has been arrested after bringing a gun on Wednesday to Apalachee High School, the same Georgia high school where a shooting in September killed two teachers and two students and wounded others.
The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office said school resource officers arrested the boy “without incident” Wednesday afternoon at the school in Winder, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta. Deputies said the student was “cooperative and compliant when encountered by law enforcement officers and there have been no reports of the student threatening anyone with the gun.”
The student, who wasn’t named because of his age, was taken to a juvenile detention center in Gainesville. He’s charged with two counts of possessing a weapon on school grounds, theft and being a minor in possession of a gun. Deputies didn’t say what kind of gun was seized. Authorities said the student was arrested shortly after 2 p.m. at school, but they did not say when he arrived or release details of the circumstances of the arrest.