Police say a 14-year-old student was found with a knife and an imitation gun at a middle school in Crown Heights Thursday.<\/p>\n
The boy threatened another 14-year-old male student at Launch Charter Academy just before noon while displaying what appeared to be a firearm, prompting a search of the boy and his belongings.<\/p>\n
Authorities say staff at the 1580 Dean St. school found an imitation gun inside the boy\u2019s backpack and a knife on his person.<\/p>\n
Launch Charter Academy says students and staff were placed in a \u201csoft lockdown\u201d following the discovery.<\/p>\n
The boy was arrested and issued a juvenile report for menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, according to police.<\/p>\n
Launch Charter School issued the following statement:<\/p>\n
“We are aware of an incident that occurred on campus involving a student report of a possible weapon. Upon receiving the report, school leadership immediately contacted the NYPD and initiated an investigation.<\/p>\n
The items involved were recovered and confiscated. A soft lockdown was initiated as a precaution. Students were not threatened. Classroom instruction was not disrupted, and all students and staff remained safe throughout the investigation.<\/p>\n
Following a joint review by school officials and the NYPD, law enforcement determined that there was no credible threat to students or staff.<\/p>\n
Any student discipline will be handled in accordance with school policy.<\/p>\n
The safety and well-being of our students and staff is our highest priority, and we will continue to work closely with our partners to maintain a safe learning environment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a 14-year-old student was found with a knife and an imitation gun at a middle school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,25408,102,5126,47010,46998,8750,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-102796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-charter-school","12":"tag-crown-heights","13":"tag-gun","14":"tag-imitation-gun","15":"tag-knife","16":"tag-middle-school","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102796","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=102796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}