N.J. Student To Disabled Child: 'I Would Shoot Him With A Gun,' Parent Says

A father says that a fifth grade student at a New Jersey elementary school threatened to bring in a gun and shoot his 10-year-old disabled son, according to a report.

The N.J. school confirmed the threat, but George Luis claims school administrators failed to act. Student interviews were recorded in a harassment, intimidation and bullying report filled out by school administrators, which said the student accused of making the threat admits “I would shoot him with a gun,” according to PIX11.

“We were contacted by the school and we were also told by our son that he was threatened by another student, that he was gonna pull a gun out and shoot him,” Luis told PIX11. “There was even a mention of a machine gun.”

Luis says his 10-year-old son Carlos became the target of bullying and the threat because he is legally deaf and wears implants that enable him to hear, but claims Franklin Elementary School in Saddle Brook did not intervene, according to the report.

Luis was so concerned that he kept his son home for days, even though school officials agreed to move the alleged bully into a different class after he and his wife made repeated complaints, according to the report.

Saddle Brook School Board member Michael Accomando expressed his outrage over the incident on Facebook, saying this:

“As a member of the BOE I feel embarrassed and ashamed that administration has done nothing about the situation or hasn’t informed any members of the BOE about this.”

Richard Katz, the district superintendent, would not talk to PIX11 about how the school handled the alleged gun threat.

Cases of violence, vandalism and substance abuse in New Jersey fell slightly last year, and schools reported six cases of handguns being brought to class in 2014, according to nj.com.