Atlanta police don’t believe a gun found at a high school Tuesday had anything to do with a fight involving more than a dozen students the following day.
But both incidents this week at the New Schools at Carver are being investigated, police and school officials said Thursday.
A principal alerted the school resource officer Tuesday that a 16-year-old student was believed to have a gun in her purse, according to Atlanta police. Another student at the school alerted a teacher with a handwritten note, police said.
The girl, whose name was not released, initially denied she had a gun before giving officers a revolver from her purse.
“The handgun was wrapped in a blue bandanna and a hair bonnet,” according to police information obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The teen, placed in handcuffs and questioned by school officials and officers, later admitted she was holding the gun for another student, police said. She was arrested and transferred to a youth detention center.
In a separate incident, about 20 students were involved in a fight in front of Carver shortly after exiting school buses Wednesday morning, police said.
School resource officers called for additional officers and had to use pepper spray to stop the fighting, Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos said Thursday. Paramedics were called to the school to treat students for minor injuries, he said.
Thirteen students were charged with affray and disorderly conduct and released to their parents, Campos said. One parent was arrested along with a juvenile son.
“At this time, it appears that the fight was between members of two neighborhoods and the Atlanta Police Gang Unit was called to investigate,” Campos said in an emailed statement.
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