Overview
- Arlington Heights police charged 18-year-old Juan Pablo Sanchez Jaramillo and a 17-year-old on Wednesday, alleging the student took the gun from a school bathroom and handed it to the teen off campus, and Sanchez Jaramillo is due in court Thursday.
- Detectives recovered a rail-mounted flashlight during a Tuesday night search warrant in a nearby community, but they have not found the handgun.
- Forest View Educational Center reopened Wednesday with extra police on site following Tuesday’s class cancellation for safety checks.
- Police put the school resource officer on leave and called the episode “unfortunate and embarrassing,” with an internal probe now examining how the weapon was left unattended.
- Investigators are urging tips at 847-368-5300 as they work to locate a police-duty handgun that remains unaccounted for in the community.