Overview
- School staff spotted a social-media post showing a student with a firearm and activated safety protocols, prompting police to enter IPEM 204 and seize a loaded .22 short while detaining a 14-year-old on Tuesday.
- Authorities turned the case over to the Fiscalía Penal Juvenil and SeNAF, notified the boy’s parents and are protecting his identity under juvenile rules.
- Police say the pistol may have been passed among up to three students during a reported conflict and that investigators seized a cellphone as part of evidence gathering.
- The episode sparked alarm at the school with many parents removing their children despite officials and the education ministry saying classes would continue under security measures; the provincial security minister urged voluntary household disarmament.
- The incident comes after a fatal May school shooting in San Cristóbal and has renewed questions about how minors access guns, the origin of the Córdoba weapon and whether school security protocols need further review.