An elementary faculty pupil in Washington state reportedly introduced a gun to highschool and confirmed it to classmates a day earlier than a lethal mass capturing at an elementary faculty in Texas.

The scholar reportedly introduced the firearm to Sundown Elementary College in Airway Heights, Washington, in a backpack on Monday, The Spokesman-Evaluate reported, citing an e-mail despatched to folks from the college's principal.

Within the e-mail, Principal Kimberly Montecucco wrote that the gun had been proven to a pupil on the bus and to a number of others on the college's grounds.

Two college students informed an grownup and the firearm was confiscated, based on the e-mail.

Montecucco stated faculty employees acted rapidly to handle the incident and contacted legislation enforcement.

"Whereas right this moment's incident didn't end in harm, it's a very critical and unsettling concern that we as a faculty and a group should tackle," Montecucco wrote.

She requested that oldsters and guardians to induce kids to seek out an grownup instantly in the event that they see or hear of something unsafe on faculty premises.

Newsweek reached out to the college for remark.

The incident got here the day earlier than an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 kids and two lecturers at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas—the deadliest faculty capturing at a U.S. faculty since the bloodbath at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.

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Legislation enforcement officers collect exterior of Robb Elementary College, the place at the least 19 kids have been killed in a mass capturing, on Could 25, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Photographs

Authorities haven't disclosed a motive, however recognized the shooter as Salvador Ramos, a resident of Uvalde.

Ramos reportedly killed all 21 victims after barricading himself inside one fourth-grade classroom earlier than legislation enforcement finally broke in and killed him, Lieutenant Christopher Olivarez of the Texas Division of Public Security stated.

The shooter "barricaded himself by locking the door and simply began capturing kids and lecturers that have been inside that classroom," he stated on CNN. "It simply exhibits you the whole evil of the shooter."

In a solemn tackle to the nation from the Roosevelt Room of the White Home hours after the capturing, President Joe Biden pleaded for motion to handle gun violence and blamed gun producers and their allies for blocking laws.

"As a nation we've got to ask: When in God's identify are we going to face as much as the gun foyer? When in God's identify are we going to do what must be carried out?" Biden stated. "I'm sick and bored with it. We now have to behave. And do not inform me we will not have an effect on this carnage."