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A student at a southeast Charlotte middle school brought a gun with him onto the campus Tuesday morning -- a day after another middle-school student, armed with a loaded gun, tried to hijack a school bus in northeast Charlotte.
This morning's incident was at Jay M. Robinson Middle School, CMS officials said. That is on Ballantyne Commons Parkway, between Providence and Rea roads.
This time, CMS officials say, the semiautomatic gun was not loaded, and the student did not have bullets. The student, a male, was taken into custody.
According to the school system, the student brought the gun to school aboard a CMS bus and showed it to students. When the armed student arrived, other students from the bus contacted school officials and called police. School officials found the handgun in the student's locker.
WBTV says it was told by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police that the student who allegedly carried the gun this morning was involved in an argument Monday with another student. The student brought the gun today to frighten the other teen, according to WBTV.
Randy Hagler, deputy chief of the CMS police, said Tuesday that there was "absolutely no connection" between the incident at Jay M. Robinson Middle and the attempted hijacking of a Northeast Middle School bus.
Hagler said that overall, the problem with guns on school property is down this year. But, he added, "It just so happens in the last 24 hours we've had two cases with three guns."
WBTV contributed
