A student at Johnson Senior High School in St. Paul was arrested on Tuesday after bringing a gun to school. No one was injured.
Shortly after the start of classes, an assistant principal, interventionist and school support liaison conducted a weapons search on a boy in the school, after receiving a tip. They found the gun and confiscated it. Officers from the St. Paul Police Department responded to a 9:30 a.m. call from the school, arrived shortly afterward and made the arrest.
“I understand this news can be extremely upsetting, especially on the first day of school. At the same time, I want to call out that our safety protocols worked as intended,” Johnson principal Jamil Payton wrote in an email to families late Tuesday…