{"id":100756,"date":"2026-01-15T01:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100756\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:42:13","slug":"nyc-student-busted-with-gun-at-school-after-fight-the-third-teen-found-armed-in-the-classroom-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100756\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC student busted with gun at school after fight &#8212; the third teen found armed in the classroom this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old boy was busted for bringing a loaded gun into his New York City school on Wednesday \u2014 making him the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/us-news\/2-nyc-teens-busted-with-guns-at-separate-high-schools-on-same-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">third teen caught with a weapon in Big Apple classrooms<\/a> this week, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was cuffed after a fight with another student led authorities to finding the .380 semi-automatic weapon stashed inside his backpack at the School of Earth Exploration and Discovery \u2013 Harlem, also known as SEED Harlem, on West 130th Street around 1 p.m., the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the gun\u2019s magazine was loaded, but the chamber was empty. <\/p>\n<p>The teen was cuffed after a fight with another student led authorities to finding the .380 semi-automatic weapon stashed inside his backpack at the School of Earth Exploration and Discovery \u2013 Harlem. Google maps<\/p>\n<p>No serious injuries were reported in the scuffle between the two middle school students. <\/p>\n<p>Charges against the teen are still pending, police added.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes after two other students were found armed in city schools Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old male, who sources said was already wanted in connection with a Bronx shooting, was found with a firearm inside the Harlem Renaissance High School just after 10 a.m., according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Charges against the teen are still pending, police said.  Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes after two other students were found armed in Big Apple schools Monday morning. Google maps<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with criminal possession of a firearm. <\/p>\n<p>That same day, police stormed Long Island City High School in Queens and nabbed a 15-year-old student who had a gun hidden in his backpack, cops said. <\/p>\n<p>Sources told The Post that an eagle-eyed staff member noticed that the teen was armed and notified the school safety agent, who in turn reported it to police.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s incident remains under investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy was busted for bringing a loaded gun into his New York City school on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101,4542,469,11182,9090,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-100756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-guns","10":"tag-harlem","11":"tag-high-schools","12":"tag-long-island-city","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}