Overview
- School resource officers detained a student Friday after receiving a tip and recovered a loaded handgun with an extended magazine that photos show was in the student’s backpack.
- The juvenile was taken into custody and police will not identify the student because of their age.
- Police described the incident as isolated with no known ongoing threats to the campus, but the discovery follows a June 3 graduation shooting that killed 18-year-old Jamario Baker and wounded three others.
- Prosecutors are separately pursuing a transfer hearing to try the 17-year-old arrested in the June shooting as an adult, and the new campus arrest is likely to increase community pressure for visible security steps.
- Sem Yeto is a continuation high school in the Fairfield-Suisun district that resumed classes on Aug. 12, and an extended magazine is a device that lets a handgun hold more rounds than a standard magazine, which officials say raises concerns about potential harm.