Boy arrested on firearms charges after McCutcheon HS put on lockout

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WISH) — A 15-year-old lad was arrested connected firearms charges Tuesday aft administrators learned of a idiosyncratic perchance with a firearm connected the grounds of McCutcheon High School.

About 11 a.m. Tuesday, a McCutcheon head shared with a Tippecanoe County schoolhouse assets serviceman a photograph of a pupil holding what appeared to beryllium a handgun, said a quality merchandise from the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office.

A hunt of the schoolhouse did not find the boy, truthful the schoolhouse was placed connected lockout, meaning nary 1 could participate oregon permission the gathering arsenic classes continued arsenic usual.

The lad was recovered astatine his location and arrested astir 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The merchandise did not place the lad oregon wherever his location is located. The merchandise besides did not place the benignant of handgun that was displayed successful the photo.

The lad faces preliminary charges of possession of a firearm connected schoolhouse property, and unsafe possession of a firearm. No further accusation was instantly disposable connected whether the lad would beryllium charged arsenic a juvenile oregon an adult.