A student at a Fort Lauderdale high schoolin South Florida (USA), was arrested this Thursday by the local police after being discovered with a gun inside the educational center.
The young Dillard High School student was arrested by the Fort Lauderdale Police after showing another student a gun on campus, according to local media reports.
When the police arrived at the school, which was closed as a precautionary measure, the bearer of the firearm was no longer inside the school, and was later arrested nearby and taken into custody.
At the time of his arrest, the young man, whose identity has not been released, was not found in possession of the firearm, according to the local channel WPLG.
Broward school authorities, cHearing that today was his last day of school before summer vacation, They indicated that the students, teachers and administrative staff are safe, and that the Police continue to investigate the event.
The arrest comes a day after 19-year-old Amari Ty-Jon Pollard was arrested after shooting two people to death during a graduation ceremony at a high school in the US city of Richmond, the capital of the state of Virginia. .
So far this year, 279 mass shootings have been reported -with more than four victims, injured or deceased- in the country, according to the organization Gun Violence Archive.