A teenager was arrested at a school in South Carolina after being found with a charged firearm on campus.
Jamichael Montrell Hicks, 18, was arrested early on Tuesday morning by a school resource officer (SCO) after the loaded gun was found in his vehicle, which was parked on the Chester High School site.
Shortly after the arresting of Hicks, the officer was informed of a firearm magazine or ammunition storage, in a toilet.
The school was then placed on a hold protocol – when everyone is told to stay in the building until everything is clear. The delegates of the Sheriff then arrived for extra security.
After an 'extensive search', no other weapons or magazines were found, said the Chester County Sheriff office.
The police also said that there is currently 'no indication', the two incidents – finding a gun in Hicks vehicle and the report on ammunition in the toilet – are connected.
The department said that Hicks South Carolina Code of Laws section 16-23-420a has violated.
The law says that it is illegal for a person to possess a firearm of any kind on a ownership of ownership, operated or checked by a public or private school, university, university, technical college, post-secondary institution, Or a public building, according to the legislative power of South Carolina.
Jamichael Montrell Hicks, 18, was arrested early on Tuesday morning by a school resource officer (SCO) after a loaded gun was found in his vehicle parked at Chester High School
Shortly after arresting Hicks, the officer was informed of a firearm magazine or ammunition storage, in a toilet at the school (photo)
Hicks was arrested for wearing a weapon in school grounds and was transferred to the detention center of Chester County.
According to the prison reports, assessed by DailyMail.com, he is still in custody.
Dailymail.com contacted the Chester County Sheriff office for more information.
In September a gun was found at the Chester High School, which encouraged another hold protocol, WCNC reported at the time.
The protocol was then lifted and the normal school day continued.
Many law enforcement officers arrived, but the police said there was no immediate danger to the students.
Details about where the gun was found or that someone was confronted with charges for the incident were not made clear.
In October, students in Chester County took care of it to stand up for weapon violence.
Hundreds of students, personnel and law enforcement officers gathered in the Auditorium in Chester Middle School to talk about how they can fight against the urgent issue.
“We are here to support them and help them spread things before it evolves into something that contains these weapons,” Chester County School District Superintendent Antwon Sutton told WSOC TV.
The number of children killed by weapons in the US has increased by 85 percent in recent decade, because school shooting has risen year to year, according to newly released data.
Provisional counties of the archive of the arms violence found that 1,419 children and teenagers were killed last year by weapons, almost double the 765 deaths included in 2014.
Death of youth gun reached a highlight of 10 years in 2022 with 1,694 children and teenagers who died of weapons.
According to a CNN analysis of events reported by the GVA, there were at least 83 shootings in the United States last year.
This reflected a peak of 130 percent from the 2014 figures and from 2023's count of 82 events and 80 the year before.
Shoots were defined as incidents at school ownership with at least one person shot, excluding the shooter. The government does not follow any shootings at school.
Due to the same definition of a shooting, there were 18, 22, 13, 15 and 13 attacks in schools in the years 2008 to 2012, including.
Since 2008, Washington DC has seen the highest number of shootings, with six in total or one per 100,000 people.
Texas generally had the most shootings, at 61.
The archive of the arms violence brought together separately comparative data about the number of children killed by weapons in the US.
A total of 1,419 young people were killed by weapon violence last year alone, an increase of 85 percent compared to the 765 included in 2014. The data is still subject to change.
No fewer than 248 children aged 0-11 were killed by gunfared, while 547 were injured.
