{"id":352873,"date":"2026-06-27T18:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352873\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:45:10","slug":"unloaded-gun-found-in-pflugerville-childs-backpack-at-preschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352873\/","title":{"rendered":"Unloaded gun found in Pflugerville child’s backpack at preschool"},"content":{"rendered":"

PFLUGERVILLE, Texas \u2014 An unloaded gun was found in a child’s backpack at Pflugerville Community Church Preschool earlier this month. <\/p>\n

According to the city of Pflugerville, Pflugerville Police responded to the preschool on June 12th after a teacher discovered an unloaded handgun inside a child’s backpack. <\/p>\n

ALSO: One dead, suspect arrested following homicide in Austin’s Colony<\/a><\/p>\n

The child’s mother was still on site at the time. Officers were able to determine that the mother used the child’s backpack the previous day and inadvertently left the handgun inside the backpack.<\/p>\n

No children gained access to the backpack and handgun. The church declined to pursue charges and officers made a referral to CPS. <\/p>\n

CBS Austin has reached out to the school for a statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PFLUGERVILLE, Texas \u2014 An unloaded gun was found in a child’s backpack at Pflugerville Community Church Preschool earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-352873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}