Post date: Apr 19, 2011 10:10:21 PM
Three children are injured at a Houston, Texas elementary school after a gun -- brought in by a 6-year-old boy -- discharges in the cafeteria.
HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES (APRIL 19, 2011) NBC - Three children were injured at lunchtime on Tuesday (April 19) at a Houston elementary school when a gun fell out of a 6-year-old's pocket and went off in the cafeteria, Houston Independent School District officials said.
The boy who brought the gun to Ross Elementary in northeast Houston was injured, as were another boy and a girl, said Norm Uhl, a district spokesman. The injuries were minor, he said, but the children, all in kindergarten, were taken to a hospital.
A father of a student at the school, Kerry Brown, said that his son Khoran, 6, was one of the boys injured but not the one who brought the gun to school.
It was not clear how the other boy got the gun or why he had it at school.
Uhl said grief counselors were at the school.