CORRECTED VERSION to show this incident occurred on Friday, not Wednesday.
A 13-year-old Grafton Middle School student was arrested Friday carrying an unloaded handgun, the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office announced.
Students at Grafton High School warned administrators around 11 Friday morning that the boy had a handgun.
The high school and middle school are in the same building on Grafton Drive.
The school principal and the school’s security officer found the 7th grader inside the building.
They found a semi-automatic pistol in a small bag the student was wearing around his neck, the Sheriff’s department said. The pistol was unloaded, and no ammunition was found in the bag or on the student.
He was taken into custody at the Merrimac juvenile detention center and was charged with possession of a firearm on school property, wich is a felony.