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Venetian Hills 2nd Grader Suspended for Allegedly Bringing Gun to School
Gun went off in school cafeteria school Friday. No one injured, according to local news reports.
A second grade student allegedly brought a loaded gun to school Friday, local news sites are reporting.
The boy brought the gun to school in his lunch box, according to a report on the Fox-5 Atlanta website.
The gun went off at the school, according to a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but no one was injured, school administrators said.
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Atlanta Public Schools spokesman Keith Bromery told Fox-5 that the gun went off in the cafeteria, lodging a bullet in the cafeteria ceiling.
The boy was immediately suspended for three days, Bromery said, and could face expulsion pending the outcome of the investigation.
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Atlanta police were called to question the boy and his parents, according to the Fox-5 story. School officials and Atlanta police are looking into the incident, trying to figure out who actually owns the gun.
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