Leah_Beno's Blog

Today an 11 year old took a loaded .25 caliber semi -utomatic handgun to Wiley Middle School. Everyone I have talked to about this just shakes their head, including myself. The big question now is where did he get the gun? The superintendent for Winston Salem/ Forsyth County Schools says the gun did not come from the boys home. The parents are cooperating, and I'm sure they have the same questions as the rest of us. Here's what happened in a nutshell: Apparently another student at the school noticed what looked like a gun clip on the 11 year old boy during lunch time on Tuesday. Administrators at Wiley Middle School got a warning about the gun from the parent on Wednesday morning. Sure enough, the 11 year old was going to class with a loaded gun in his waistband. When the 11 year old boy was confronted by the principal the gun dropped down the boys pants and onto the floor. I think this kid is lucky the gun didn't go off and shoot himself or someone else. I wanted to write this blog to commend the other student ( who's identity we may never know) Thanks to that brave student speaking up to parents, the school administrators and school resource officers were able to get that gun out of the wrong hands. If what the student saw was correct, which so far it has been, the 11 year old may have been brought the gun to school two days in a row ....if not more. I don't even want to think about what could have happened.