{"id":375210,"date":"2026-10-16T22:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375210\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T22:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:34:41","slug":"news-12-long-island-274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375210\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say they seized a gun inside a Bronx high school on Friday, which, according to school safety sources, is the eighth found inside the school since the start of the school year on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">School safety sources say around 900 students attend Jill Chaifetz Transfer High School, while just two NYPD school safety agents are tasked with keeping the peace.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The school, located in the South Bronx at 778 Forest Ave., does not scan for weapons, according to sources, who say a student threatened to shoot another student during a fight at the school just last week.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Friday&#8217;s incident happened just before 2:15 p.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say officers took a 19-year-old student into custody for allegedly bringing a gun to school.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No official charges have been filed.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say no one was hurt during the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to the New York City Department of Education for a statement and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say they seized a gun inside a Bronx high school on Friday, which, according to school safety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-375210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375210","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=375210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}