{"id":110926,"date":"2026-01-08T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110926\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:38:08","slug":"cape-coral-5-year-old-unknowingly-takes-gun-to-school-father-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110926\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral 5-year-old unknowingly takes gun to school; father arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, FLA. \u2014 The Lee County School District says a loaded handgun was found inside a kindergarten student\u2019s backpack at Trafalgar elementary Tuesday morning &#8211; prompting a quick response from staff and police.<\/p>\n<p>The Cape Coral Police Department says a five-year-old student unknowingly went to school with the gun in their backpack after entering campus through the OPENGATE weapons detection system. <\/p>\n<p>A district representative says the situation triggered an alert to school staff, who immediately separated the student from others and safely located the loaded handgun. <\/p>\n<p>No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the child did not know the gun was inside the backpack and had no intent to harm anyone, a determination echoed by the Lee County School District.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767908288_156_.jpeg\" alt=\"JamesEWilson.jpeg\"  width=\"576\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>LCSO<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral Police say the child\u2019s father, James Edward Wilson IV, was arrested and is facing charges of child endangerment and improper storage of a firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, FLA. \u2014 The Lee County School District says a loaded handgun was found inside a kindergarten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,263,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-110926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-florida","10":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","11":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}