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UPDATE: Student arrested after bringing gun to school
By VALERIE JONES
A student was arrested Tuesday, Nov. 25, for bringing a gun to Cy-Fair High School.
The 16-year-old Hispanic male student was observed during lunchtime displaying a 32 caliber semi-automatic handgun, according to Harris County Precinct 4 Assistant Chief Mark Herman.
“He was showing the guns to the kids at school during lunchtime. One student saw it and did the right thing by letting an administrator know and the administrators then went to deputies,” Herman said.
Authorities said the boy had the gun concealed in a backpack when he brought it onto school premises. Both the student and the gun were taken into custody without any problems.
“He said he never had any intent to harm anyone at the school, but was using the gun as protection after school from people in the Spring Branch area,” Herman said. “Apparently he had some problems with people in that area in the past.”
Herman said when deputies checked the gun, they found it had a live round in the barrel.
The student was arrested and transported to the Clay Road substation and was charged with unlawful carrying of a weapon on school premises. He was then taken to juvenile probation and released to the juvenile authorities.
Herman said unlawful carrying of a weapon is usually a state jail felony, but since in this case it was on school premises, it was enhanced one degree to a third-degree felony.
A statement from Cy-Fair Independent School District said “appropriate disciplinary action was taken as outlined in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District Student Code of Conduct.”
The CFISD Student Code of Conduct states there is mandatory expulsion for serious offenses to Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP).
It reads, “a student age 10 or older shall be expelled from school to JJAEP if the student commits the following violation on school property or at a school-sponsored or school-related activity: uses, exhibits or possesses a firearm as defined by Section 46.01(3) of the Texas Penal Code or a weapon listed as a prohibited weapon under the Texas Penal Code, Section 46.05.”
The 16-year-old Hispanic male student was observed during lunchtime displaying a 32 caliber semi-automatic handgun, according to Harris County Precinct 4 Assistant Chief Mark Herman.
“He was showing the guns to the kids at school during lunchtime. One student saw it and did the right thing by letting an administrator know and the administrators then went to deputies,” Herman said.
Authorities said the boy had the gun concealed in a backpack when he brought it onto school premises. Both the student and the gun were taken into custody without any problems.
“He said he never had any intent to harm anyone at the school, but was using the gun as protection after school from people in the Spring Branch area,” Herman said. “Apparently he had some problems with people in that area in the past.”
Herman said when deputies checked the gun, they found it had a live round in the barrel.
The student was arrested and transported to the Clay Road substation and was charged with unlawful carrying of a weapon on school premises. He was then taken to juvenile probation and released to the juvenile authorities.
Herman said unlawful carrying of a weapon is usually a state jail felony, but since in this case it was on school premises, it was enhanced one degree to a third-degree felony.
A statement from Cy-Fair Independent School District said “appropriate disciplinary action was taken as outlined in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District Student Code of Conduct.”
The CFISD Student Code of Conduct states there is mandatory expulsion for serious offenses to Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP).
It reads, “a student age 10 or older shall be expelled from school to JJAEP if the student commits the following violation on school property or at a school-sponsored or school-related activity: uses, exhibits or possesses a firearm as defined by Section 46.01(3) of the Texas Penal Code or a weapon listed as a prohibited weapon under the Texas Penal Code, Section 46.05.”
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