SPOKANE, Wash – A Spokane middle school student who brought a loaded gun to school Tuesday showed it to two different students and threatened one of them if she turned him in.
Those are new details in an affidavit of facts filed in Spokane County juvenile court.
The incident sent Shaw Middle School into lockdown Tuesday.
According to the affidavit, two students said he told them about the gun. When one of them chastised him, police say he responded with, “If you snitch, I will pop you in your head next time I see you.”
Police say he told one of the students he had the gun because another student would be coming to school, but he did not elaborate.
A school resource officer found the student, who ran when staff members tried to confront him.
Police say he got free and ran away, leaving the backpack behind.
The resource officer checked the backpack and found a loaded gun in the front pocket. The officer noted that the slide was closed with a loaded magazine but that there was not a round in the chamber.
Police caught up with the boy in a field north of the school and placed him under arrest.
The juvenile will face a judge Wednesday afternoon on charges of having a dangerous weapon on school grounds and unlawful possession of a firearm.
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