7-year-old student caught with gun in backpack at Columbia elementary school
by Briasia Russ
{p}Officials say a child at Sandlapper Elementary School in Northeast Columbia notified an administrator that they believed a student had a gun. Administrators searched the backpack of the 7-year-old student and found a loaded handgun.{/p}
COLUMBIA, SC (WACH) —
The Richland County Sheriff's Department says a gun was found in a backpack at a Columbia elementary school.
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Officials say a child at Sandlapper Elementary School in Northeast Columbia notified an administrator that they believed a student had a gun.
Administrators searched the backpack of the 7-year-old student and found a loaded handgun.
The weapon was turned over to the School Resource Officer.
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Richland County investigators have taken over the investigation and are looking into how the child obtained the weapon and if bringing it to school was intentional.
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