Southampton Town Police are interviewing a 14-year-old student at Hampton Bays High School who was apprehended with a BB gun at the school on Tuesday morning.
“We had a student who brought an unloaded BB gun to school,” Superintendent Lars Clemensen said. “Other students learned of it and reported it — and that’s exactly what they’re trained to do: ‘If you see something, say something.’ Our code of conduct worked.”
“Our kids were not in danger at any time,” Mr. Clemensen emphasized. “But we do take these things very seriously.”
He made it clear that there is “an established system of communications” through which parents are kept informed of school situations or emergencies.
Detective Sergeant Lisa Costa of the Southampton Town Police said the call came in just after 11 a.m. Students at the school were “alarmed,” she said, when they found out about the air gun and told security and the administration. “Security was on top of it from the beginning,” she said.
The teen could face a charge of unlawful possession of a weapon by a person under 16 years of age, the detective sergeant said. Violations of the provision of the penal code related to the possession of an air gun could result in a juvenile delinquent judgment by the court.
