A 15-year-old Kennedy Road Middle student faces firearms charges after being caught with a handgun at the Spalding County school.
The student was detained Tuesday, and released to a relative with a pending court date, after a school resource officer found a .380 handgun, according to a news release from Spalding County Sheriff Wendell Beam.
The school’s resource officer was notified the same student had a gun the previous week, according to Beam. Friday the student told authorities he had a gun, but he threw it into the woods earlier in the day. Griffin police searched the area where the teen said he tossed the gun, but no weapon was recovered.
When the officer was notified again about the teen possibly having a gun, a backpack and “the area the student had access to at school,” were searched and the weapon was located. The teen faces charges of possession of a handgun by a minor, possession of a weapon on school property and disruption of the operation of a public school.
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