A Texas high school student was busted on Wednesday after police officers discovered an AK-47 style handgun and a replica AR-15 rifle inside of his car — a day after nineteen kids were murdered at an elementary school in Uvalde County, Texas, authorities said.
The shocking discovery unfolded after an employee at a business in Richardson called 911 to report a male walking in the 1500 block of East Spring Valley Road towards Berkner High School with what appeared to be a rifle just before 11 a.m., police said.
Responding officers arrived within minutes at the school and located the student inside the building. The student was unarmed when cops found him, but officers later located two guns inside the student’s vehicle that was parked in a nearby lot, investigators said.
The student was apprehended and charged with unlawful carrying weapons in a weapon-free school zone. No other information was released about the suspect due to his age. Richardson is a city of about 120,000 people located about 15 miles north of Dallas.
Authorities thanked the “vigilant awareness and actions of the person who initially called 911 to alert law enforcement.”
Wednesday’s scare came 24 hours after crazed teenager Salvador Ramos opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, killing twenty-one people and injuring over a dozen others.
Ramos, 18, was shot and killed by a heroic border patrol agent who responded to the scene. The massacre — which is the largest mass shooting in The Lone Star State’s history — put schools, communities and law enforcement across the country on high alert.
