NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A 17-year-old who allegedly brought a gun to his Queens high school and showed another peer was taken to a local NYPD precinct, police said Thursday - one of multiple incidents of that kind this week.
Police said the unnamed student at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village allegedly showed a fellow student a gun at around 11:45 a.m.
School security was notified of the sighting and the student's gun was located inside his backpack at the front of the classroom, authorities said.
The NYPD said no one was injured during the incident and the student was pulled from the school and brought to the 105th Precinct.
Authorities said there has not been an arrest at this time.
Another incident of a gun being found at a city school happened involving a 14-year-old student at Intermediate School 98 in the Bronx Wednesday, according to the Daily News.
A classmate said the student was showing off a bright pink handgun. That student's parent told school officials, who found the loaded gun in the student's backpack on Thursday, the report said.
“The whole school was in lockdown,” the student told the Daily News. “They told us there was a gun in the school. It lasted two periods. We couldn’t leave the class. They had us go to one side of the room.”
Cops found handguns at three city high schools in the Bronx and Brooklyn on Wednesday -- two were found by metal detectors, while the other was found on the waistband of a FDR High School Student in Brooklyn, sources told the Daily News.
DOE spokesman Nathaniel Styer responded, saying, “Weapons have absolutely no place in our schools, and our outstanding School Safety Agents swiftly and safely recovered and immediately confiscated these items, ensuring that all students and staff are safe. All protocols were followed, and we are working closely with NYPD regarding follow-up actions.”
Meanwhile, Teamster Local 237 President Gregory Floyd, who leads the union repping school safety agents, said, "Added to this, during the last several weeks, there have also been butcher knives brought into schools, stabbings on school campuses and bloody fights among students that spilled into the surrounding neighborhood. In all these violent incidents, School Safety Agents professionally responded to minimize the mayhem and save lives."
"These were not random, infrequent acts. They have become part of the everyday risk of danger that public school students and personnel routinely face. They beg the question of the mayor, the public advocate, current City Council members and those seeking to win office in November -- who think School Safety Agents are not needed to protect our 1 million school students: What more will it take for you to acknowledge that to help ensure safety in public schools, School Safety Agents are needed there?" Floyd said.
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