Officials at Clarke Central High School in Athens are reviewing security procedures after a student was found with a gun at a football game Friday night, reports said.
Officials were notified near the end of the game against city rival Cedar Shoals that a student may have a weapon, the Athens Banner-Herald reported.
The student was 13, Channel 2 Action News reported.
“Law enforcement officers immediately took the subject and weapon into custody,” Clarke County School District Superintendent Demond A. Means told the newspaper in an email. He said the district “is thankful to the patron who notified security of the situation.”
It’s the second time in four years that someone with a gun was arrested at a game between these schools, the newspaper reported. In 2014, police arrested an 18-year-old man said by police to be a member of a street gang.
“We need to take into account the circumstances of these individuals that are doing these things,” resident Sunchana Pavlic told Channel 2, “and really ask ourselves why they’re doing them, instead of, ‘Oh yes, you’re going to jail.’”
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