Sacramento City Unified School District said gun was found at Edward Kemble Elementary in south Sacramento
Sacramento City Unified School District said gun was found at Edward Kemble Elementary in south Sacramento
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Sacramento City Unified School District said gun was found at Edward Kemble Elementary in south Sacramento
A gun with a loaded magazine was found inside a second-grader’s desk at Edward Kemble Elementary in Sacramento.
The Sacramento City Unified School District sent this letter to families Tuesday night and said staff were alerted by students that a classmate brought a weapon to school.
As of Wednesday evening, Sacramento police told KCRA 3 they are investigating who the gun belonged to and how the young student got ahold of it.
News of the loaded gun on campus came as reports of the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 students and two teachers were released.
As parents picked up and dropped off their children from Edward Kemble Elementary on Wednesday, many told KCRA 3 they do not feel their children are safe at school.
“Due to him looking at me in my eye and telling me, ‘I don’t feel safe,’ that did not sit well with me,” Noel said. “I couldn’t go on with the rest of my day without being here, so he’ll know Daddy’s here and he’ll be OK.”
Noel said he sat in his car all day outside the elementary school, on a day that brook 100-degree temperatures, to make sure his second-grader son was safe.
“We need to start banning assault rifles,” he said. “Ban assault rifles; do thorough background checks on everybody, and run their social media profiles.”
Overall, parent Michelle Miller said she feels her child is safe at school “to a certain extent.”
She has three children: a preschooler, third-grader, and a seventh-grader.
“It’s pretty scary to know that kids are so able to get ahold of firearms and just bring them so willingly to school,” she said.
She wants to make sure other parents are talking to their children about guns, school shootings, and violence.
“I think if you close your kids off to the world, they’re not going to know much,” she said. “They’re not going to know what to do in certain situations so I just keep it real as much as I can with them.”
Royal Jones told KCRA 3 that more law enforcement presence on the campus would make him more comfortable with dropping his children off for school.
“I don’t think there will be any solution to stop a tragedy from happening, but I do think heavier police presence would give, to some degree, children a chance,” he said.
He and his wife decided to keep their three children home from school Wednesday and will continue to keep them home until changes are made.
“We can get back time lost on curriculum, but we can’t replace our kids,” Jones said, while holding the hand of his 4-year-old son.
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