BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – A Broward high faculty scholar seemed in court docket Friday morning after police accused him of bringing a gun to his faculty on Thursday.
Fort Lauderdale police showed Kaylon Hubbard Jr., 15, was once discovered with a gun with clean ammunition in his backpack at Dillard High School, positioned at 2501 NW eleventh St.
Earlier that morning, government mentioned every other teenager arrived at a health center with a gunshot wound, main Fort Lauderdale police to say the 2 incidents had been hooked up.
At roughly 9:06 am, a Fort Lauderdale police element officer answered to Broward Health Medical Center after being suggested of a 16-year-old male arrived on the health center with a gunshot wound.
Police mentioned {the teenager} advised officials that he by chance shot himself out of doors of Church’s Chicken close to the 1100 block of Northwest twenty fourth Avenue.
Authorities showed the teenager’s accidents had been non-life threatening.
The high faculty was once put on a “secure status” following the incident.
Investigators mentioned faculty personnel become conscious of the gun on campus after appearing an administrative seek of Hubbard’s property and right away notified the varsity useful resource officer.
Dillard High School Principal Cassandra Robinson advised oldsters in a observation Thursday that no threats had been made to the varsity and any level right through the incident and the coed (Hubbard) was once arrested.
Students on the faculty advised Local 10 News they weren’t notified in regards to the gun discovered however handiest placed on lockdown.
The incident has created severe considerations for folks.
“I think they should have a metal detector upon the gates of entering the school before they get in the school, that way they can catch the weapons before they get in there,” mentioned mother or father George Bowden, whose two daughters attend Dillard High School.
While some South Florida faculty districts like Palm Beach County have already applied steel detectors in part of their faculties, Local 10 News reporter Roy Ramos reached out to Broward County Schools to to find out if they’d deliberate to do the similar.
A Broward County Schools spokesperson mentioned the district has already begun screenings with hand-held steel detectors at two random faculties, 5 days every week. On Friday, they added to that with a observation that learn partly:
“The incident at Dillard High School yesterday confirms the need to continue to prioritize the use of metal detectors in our high schools. The district plans are to implement the use of metal detectors in the upcoming 2024/25 school year.”
Hubbard’s protection legal professional argued that the teenager didn’t know that the gun was once in his backpack.
Hubbard will spend the following 21 days in protected juvenile detention.
Court information display that he has had no prior convictions, and an expulsion can be up to the varsity board.
Authorities advised Local 10 News that the 16-year-old teenager who was once shot was once handled for his damage and is predicted to continue to exist. It is unclear if he’s going to face any fees.
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