10-Year-Old Girl Brought Semiautomatic Gun To South Suburban Elementary School: Police

RICHTON PARK, IL — A 10-year-old girl brought a semiautomatic handgun to her Richton Park school Wednesday, according to police.

Officers responded around 8:30 a.m. to Neil Armstrong Elementary School for a report of a child with a gun, police said. A teacher had wrestled the loaded weapon from the fourth-grader, WLS reported.

The girl was taken to a hospital for an evaluation, according to police, who said the gun belonged to the child’s parent and that charges were brought in the incident. No one was hurt, police said.

The school underwent a lockdown and was then canceled Wednesday, WLS reported.

The girl’s mother, a Cook County corrections officer, owned the gun and is charged with endangering a minor, according to WLS, which reported the woman was stripped of her law enforcement powers pending an internal investigation, but the child was not charged.