A spokesperson for the Greenville County School District says a Hughes Middle School bus driver, driving her morning route, overheard a suspicious comment by a female student. Spokesperson Oby Lyles says the bus driver called ahead to notify the school and an assistant principal and the school resource officer met the student and conducted a search. The investigation found an unloaded handgun and bullets in the student’s bookbag.
School officials and law enforcement found the handgun had been exchanged at school earlier in the week with two other students. The school district says there are three 8th grade students involved, one is male and two are female. The students have been recommended for explusion.
Lyles says the information about this incident is being conveyed to parents by the school Principal, Dr. Patrick Mark, via school messenger.
Jason Rampey with the Greenville Police Department says they are working with the school district. When and if there are any charges they will release that information.
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