An Ocala elementary school student has been suspended for bringing a toy gun to school.
On Thursday morning, the school resource officer at Fessenden Elementary School was called to the cafeteria by the school’s principal, who reported walking past a fifth-grade student and seeing what appeared to be the handle of a toy gun in his open backpack. The principal took the backpack, separated the student from the others and called the resource officer, who is a Marion County sheriff’s deputy, for help, a sheriff’s office report states.
The deputy then met with the student, who was crying. The deputy checked the backpack and found “an old toy cap gun” and took possession of the toy. He then went through the entire backpack and found nothing else except school supplies.
When the deputy questioned the student, he said knew he had done something wrong by bringing the toy gun to school to show it to a friend. But he added that he never showed it to anyone while on the school’s campus, which is located at 4200 NW 89th Pl. in Ocala.
The boy’s parents were called and a short time later his mother arrived at the school. The deputy gave her the toy gun and she assured him that the only weapon in her house, in the 6000 block of NW 67th Avenue Rd., is a BB gun that is kept in a secure place where her son can’t access it, the report says.
The student was suspended for three days and no law enforcement action was taken.
