12-year-old Riverside student arrested for firing gun on campus: Police

A 12-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday after allegedly firing a gun whereas at Loma Vista Center College in Riverside.

Simply after 5 p.m., the town’s Public Security Communications Heart acquired calls a couple of single gunshot fired inside the varsity multi-purpose room, situated at 11050 Arlington Ave., the Riverside Police Division stated in a information launch.

College employees instantly positioned the campus on lockdown and commenced evacuating college students from the room to a secure location. 

Officers responded and decided nobody on campus was injured, however discovered a discarded handgun.

Workers members directed police to a pupil who they believed could have been concerned. Officers detained the scholar and recovered the firearm, which was discovered to be loaded.

The preliminary investigation decided {that a} 12-year-old male pupil was attending an afterschool program when he started exhibiting off a firearm inside his backpack whereas sitting at a desk, police stated. As he reached into the backpack, the gun fired and struck the desk after which the bottom.

No college students or employees had been injured on account of the gun being fired.

In accordance with Riverside County’s “College Menace Evaluation and Response (S.T.A.R.) Protocol,” officers performed a security evaluation of the scholar’s house with cooperation of his household, police stated. Further firearms had been discovered on the pupil’s home and picked up by officers for safekeeping. 

The coed was later arrested and booked right into a Riverside County Juvenile Detention Facility on suspicion of negligent discharge of a firearm inside an occupied constructing and possession of a firearm on a college campus.

The varsity principal notified all households and employees of the incident, and a workforce of counselors had been on campus to offer counseling and assist providers, in line with Alvord Unified College District Superintendent Allan Mucerino.

“Many college students current had been shaken by what occurred and safely launched to their mother and father or caregivers,” Mucerino stated in a written assertion.