Virginia police arrest 12-year-old they say brought rifles and shotgun to

[Kadie]

Virginia police arrest 12-year-old they say brought rifles and shotgun to his school

Friday, June 18, 2004


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(06-18) 16:43 PDT GAINESVILLE, Va. (AP) --

A 12-year-old student in camouflage gear was arrested Friday for bringing two rifles and a shotgun to his school, police said.

No shots were fired and no one was hurt, but about 1,100 students were evacuated from Bull Run Middle School, about 35 miles west of Washington.

Police also arrested a woman who works at the school who they said knew about the guns but remained silent.

An assistant principal making his morning rounds found the armed boy in a bathroom, Prince William County police said.

more... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/18/national1943EDT0769.DTL

[Longhorn79]

1. Why on earth would that woman remain silent?

[Bluebear]

5. She said "They'll pry his gun from his cold dead fingers"

She loves that bumper sticker!

[BeHereNow]

2. I repeat...

I CAN NOT live in this diseased country another day.
WHO ARE these fucking people?
What parent in their right mind allow this type of
endangerment to their own child???
BHN

[Laughing Mirror]

3. A local paper has not one but two students being held

http://www.manassasjm.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MJM%2FMGArticle%2FWPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031776126226&path=null

on edit: Washington Post reports that the 38-year old woman was the 12-year old's mother:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51760-2004Jun18.html

[UpInArms]

10. from the WashPost story

A 12-year-old boy plotting to frighten or even kill students who had teased him and then hold hostages to extort money was arrested yesterday morning at a Prince William County middle school after an administrator found him with a loaded rifle and two other guns, police said.

The seventh-grader was arrested in full camouflage gear on the last day of school after officials at Bull Run Middle School locked down the building and police stormed it under a plan developed after the shootings at Colorado's Columbine High School in 1999.

Police also arrested the boy's mother, Naomi Lewis, 38, a cafeteria worker at the school in the county's Gainesville section, and charged her with possession of a weapon on school property, law enforcement sources said. The boy had gotten a ride to school with his mother and left the guns in her car. Lewis noticed the guns and locked the car but never reported that they were there, police said in a statement. The boy later went back with a car key and retrieved the guns, police said.

Lewis did not know her son had a key and did not know of the plot, sources said. The guns belonged to the family, and neighbors said police removed about 20 additional weapons from the home on Brave Court in Haymarket.

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Deane and law enforcement sources said the incident began about 8:30 a.m., when the student sneaked out of the building and to his mother's car to retrieve the guns. He went first to a bathroom, and as he popped a cartridge into the .30-06 rifle, an assistant principal on routine rounds heard the unmistakable sound of a gun being loaded. The administrator called police, and the school system and police department immediately implemented the county's school violence response plan, put into place after the Columbine shootings.

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[Massacure]

4. School still isn't finished down there?

[PartyPooper]

6. A 12-year-old wearing 'camouflage gear' to school is a dead give-away!

Well, Duh!

[name not needed]

7. Someone on another board I post on

goes to that school.

Here's the thread on it.

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=543820

[Lefty48197]

8. I say beat the kid to death

no sense playing around with these idiots anymore. Cancel his NRA membership too.

[JayS]

9. Wow! No mention of the NRA until the 8th post! A DU record! n/t

n/t