FIRCREST – A 5-year-old boy climbed from a chair onto a washer-dryer, got an old pistol out of a cupboard and brought it to kindergarten, where he was suspended for 10 days, officials said.
The boy took the unloaded .22-caliber gun to Whittier Elementary School in his backpack and showed it to a friend on the playground, then put it into a friend’s backpack, Police Chief John Cheesman said Tuesday.
The boy never made any threat and told the principal what he had done Monday, but he was suspended immediately, and police confiscated the gun, said Patti Holmgren, a spokeswoman for the Tacoma school system.
“The boy now realizes he should not have brought the pistol to school,” the chief said.
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