The last thing students at Williamsville South High School would expect to find on the floor of their bathroom is a police officer’s unattended firearm.
Yet, on September 28, 2018, that is exactly what happened after Officer Thomas Moss of the Amherst Town Police Department walked out of the bathroom without his handgun while working an off-duty security job at the high school. A student later found the weapon and turned it in.
The consequences of this potentially catastrophic mistake for the police officer? A letter of reprimand that equated to a slap on the wrist…