Posted on 04/07/2006 9:08:49 PM PDT by ncountylee
A 13-year-old boy showing off his father's gun in a crowded school bus Thursday afternoon accidentally fired it, with the bullet passing several students' heads but injuring no one, Prince William County police said yesterday.
The Woodbridge teenager, a student at Saunders Middle School in Manassas, faces criminal charges, and his father, a U.S. Park Police officer, is the subject of an internal investigation, authorities said.
Sgt. Dennis Mangan, a Prince William police spokesman, said that an investigation of the incident "revealed he didn't bring the gun to school to harm anyone, he just brought it to show off, and the gun went off accidentally. It was just lucky that he didn't have it pointed at anyone."
The gun, police added, had been at the school that day.
"It remained there all day, but no one reported it," Associate Superintendent Alison Nourse-Miller said. "We are tremendously grateful that no one was hurt but horrified that this incident could ever have happened."
The teenager, whom police are not naming because he is a juvenile, was charged in family court with reckless handling of a firearm and possession of a firearm on school property. The boy will not be allowed to attend school until the School Board decides a penalty, and the student to whom he was showing the gun also was suspended because he did not report it before it was discharged. Expulsion is possible, district spokesman Phil Kavits said.
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ROFL. No, it obviously did not.
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