Some Houston area parents have a whole lot of explaining to do!
A group of kindergarten students were sitting in the cafeteria of the Betsy Ross Elementary School in Houston, when a loaded gun dropped from the pocket of a kindergarten student and discharged, grazing and injuring the gun carrier as well as 2 other students.
According to police, the children were taken by ambulance to a hospital and their injuries were deemed to be non-life threatening. School officials said the boy who brought the gun suffered an injury to his leg that was probably caused by the bullet. The other 2 children, a 5-year-old boy and girl, appeared to have been hit by flying debris or shrapnel. Neither was identified.
Back at the school, counselors were busy trying to calm traumatized children, as well as frantic parents who rushed to the school to pick up their children upon hearing of the shooting. So far, it is unclear how the boy obtained the weapon or who owns it. But authorities expect he likely brought it from home, which will surely pose numerous questions to the boy’s parents as to how a gun was even within his reach. If the dots connect, charges and/or lawsuits could eventually be filed.
“These parents, they need to start checking their kids’ backpacks and check their child before they bring their child to school,” an angry Alicia Davis said, whose son attends the school. Davis blames the boys parents and says she searches her own child’s backpack each day before he leaves for class. “That child is too young. Bringing a gun to school to hurt another child, that is wrong. These parents need to deal with their children and watch their children.”
