A motive remained unclear after two male students were charged with bringing loaded guns to Battery Creek High School last week. School officials and classmates described the two high schoolers as “best friends,” according to an incident report from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.
The search for the two firearms began less than an hour into the school day March 19, when an anonymous student told an assistant principal they saw one of the boys with a handgun at a “school function” a few days before.
The first student’s gun, a Palmetto State Armory Dagger, was found hidden in the front of his pants, the report says. That discovery led administrators, sheriff’s deputies and a school resource officer to the gym, where inside the second suspect’s backpack they found a Glock 10mm handgun with 14 rounds in the magazine and one loaded in the chamber…