Wednesday, 13 March 2013 01:36
Four arrested after Normandy parent spots guns on school parking lot
An alert parent is being credited with stopping a potentially dangerous situation before it could escalate.
Wellston police Sergeant Marvin Berry says the mother of a Normandy High School student saw people exchanging guns inside a car on the school parking lot Tuesday afternoon. She alerted school security. They called police.
Police searched two SUV's and found two handguns. Four people, three of them students, have been arrested.
A letter sent to parents by the school principal, Calvin Nicholas says no one was directly threatened in the incident.
Wellston police Sergeant Marvin Berry says the mother of a Normandy High School student saw people exchanging guns inside a car on the school parking lot Tuesday afternoon. She alerted school security. They called police.
Police searched two SUV's and found two handguns. Four people, three of them students, have been arrested.
A letter sent to parents by the school principal, Calvin Nicholas says no one was directly threatened in the incident.
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