Police in a Dallas suburb arrested a juvenile on Wednesday for gun expenses after a report that the scholar gave the impression to be carrying a rifle to a close-by highschool. This comes simply someday after a highschool scholar in Uvalde, Texas, shot and killed 21 individuals at an elementary faculty, killing 19 youngsters.

The Richardson Police Division launched an announcement Wednesday morning that they'd obtained a 9-1-1 name "reporting a male holding what gave the impression to be a rifle" and strolling in direction of L.V. Berkner Excessive College simply earlier than 11 a.m.

"Inside minutes of the decision being dispatched, quite a few law enforcement officials from varied models throughout the Richardson Police Division responded to Berkner Excessive College and initiated a search and investigation into this incident," the police division wrote on its Fb web page.

All different colleges within the quick space had been notified of the suspicious exercise, and police labored with the Richardson Unbiased College District to determine the male, who was recognized as a scholar at Berkner Excessive. Police had been capable of find him inside the highschool Wednesday, however he had no weapons on him, the assertion learn.

"Additional investigation led to the invention of a car utilized by the suspect within the car parking zone of 1551 East Spring Valley Highway. Contained in the car, officers noticed what gave the impression to be an AK-47 fashion pistol and a reproduction AR-15 fashion Orbeez rifle," the police assertion learn.

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A Dallas-area highschool scholar was arrested on gun expenses Wednesday, Might 25, 2022, in Richardson, Texas. On this picture, law enforcement officials stand exterior the Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, on Might 25, 2022. The tight-knit Latino group of Uvalde was wracked with grief Wednesday after a teen in physique armor marched into the college and killed 19 youngsters and two lecturers, within the newest spasm of lethal gun violence within the U.S. Picture by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP by way of Getty Photographs

Investigators stated the weapons had been loaded inside the scholar's Volkswagen Jetta, which was finally towed away.

The coed, whose title was not launched due to age, was arrested and charged with Illegal Carrying Weapons in a Weapon-Free College Zone, T.P.C. 46.02, which is a state jail felony in Texas.

"The Richardson Police Division wish to remind the general public of the significance to report suspicious exercise, as we acknowledge the vigilant consciousness and actions of the one who initially referred to as 911 to alert regulation enforcement," the assertion continued.

Berkner had been positioned on a lockdown, as was close by Springridge Elementary College.

Banneka Namasaka has a toddler who's a freshman at Berkner Excessive, and he bought a staggering message from one other baby who's solely 10.

"My daughter got here residence in the present day, she is ten years previous, and she or he was like, 'Oh my God daddy, there was a lockdown,' I have not had the dialog but," Namasaka instructed Fox 4 Information in DFW.

This got here someday after the lethal mass taking pictures at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, the place a highschool scholar entered and gunned down 19 youngsters and two adults. The suspect in that taking pictures, Salvador Ramos, was an 18 yr previous scholar at Uvalde Excessive College.