Cops: 8-year-old arrested, brought loaded gun to Brentwood school
Quick ReadA third-grader in Brentwood was found with a loaded handgun in his school desk, officials said.
Photo credit: James Carbone | North Elementary School in Brentwood, where an 8-year-old boy was arrested for bringing a loaded gun to the school on Wednesday, police said. (Jan. 20, 2010)
Police photo of the gun they say a
A Brentwood third-grade teacher Wednesday discovered more than notebooks and pencils in the desk of one of her pupils:
She found a loaded semiautomatic handgun.
The student at North Elementary School was charged with weapons possession as a juvenile, as Suffolk detectives tried to determine how the youngster got the gun.
The weapon was taken to a county crime lab for tests to see...
