Gun Incident at Inman Middle School

A 13-year-old boy was arrested and charged with bringing a gun to Inman Middle School, earlier this month.

The boy, who was not named because he is a minor, brought the black-handled, silver colored, plastic gun to the school on May 1, according to a police report about the incident.

The boy had shown the gun to different students around the school and another student reported it to school officials.

Inman administrators pulled the student from his class, found the plastic gun inside his bookbag in his locker and summoned police.

The boy's mother was subsequently called and the boy was charged with carrying a weapon at school.

An Atlanta Public Schools spokesman did not return a Patch request for comment Wednesday.

The incident is the latest in a series of serious offenses involving Atlanta Public Schools, against a backdrop of heightened parent concern in the wake of school shootings across America.

• In March, Inman officials sent letters to parents regarding threats made by members of "gangs" at the school to "shoot up some kids" at 12:15 p.m. on March 25.
• On Feb. 27, Morgan Tukes, a 17-year-old student at Grady High School in Midtown, shot herself in the leg with a pink-colored .380-caliber handgun on campus.
• On Jan. 31, a student at Price Middle School in the Historic South Atlanta neighborhood shot another student and wounded a teacher in an incident on campus.