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Two Spring Valley Middle Schoolers Arrested After Unloaded BB Gun Found at STEAM Academy

Classes continued behind locked doors under a secure-campus response.

Overview

  • School staff reported a possible firearm shortly after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the fourth- through eighth-grade campus on Leland Street.
  • Deputies contacted several students and found a black metal BB gun in one student's backpack during searches.
  • The recovered BB gun was not loaded, according to the Sheriff's Office.
  • Two middle-school students were arrested on suspicion of possessing a weapon on school grounds.
  • Deputies suspect one student brought the item and handed it to the other, operations resumed shortly after and officials reported no outstanding threat.