Ottawa police say a gun was seized from a teen at a high school in the city’s west end on Thursday.
According to police, the youth was charged with weapons offences after they were called to an intermediate school at about 4 p.m.
Initial reports said the youth was displaying the gun. Police, however, are ensuring the public that at no time were threats made to any individual.
Officers arrived and seized the loaded handgun and arrested a 13-year-old boy. The individual faces various weapons offences under the Youth Criminal Justice Act and therefore neither he or the school can be identified.
In a letter sent to out to parents Julie Mathé, principal of Frank Ryan School says a group of students who saw a student with a gun reported it to school officials who found it in his bag. The police were then called.
The letter also did not identify the student but Mathé writes that in regular circumstances, the student is removed from the school.
“We will continue to cooperate with police and work closely with the student and the family to make sure the student gets the support needed,” writes Mathé.
The guns and gangs unit’s investigation into the matter continues.
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