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Article: CPS probes 3 BB gun incidents at S. Side elementary: One child shot, others threatened with weapon
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 30, 2006
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Chicago Public Schools officials are investigating how Bouchet
Elementary administrators handled three BB gun incidents at the South
Side school over a one-month period, including one that may have
occurred with a BB gun stolen from the assistant principal's office.
In one case, Bouchet Assistant Principal Larry Gambles confiscated
a BB gun Nov. 28, but may not have secured it properly, CPS officials
said. The weapon was discovered missing from an unlocked cabinet in
Gambles' office Dec. 12, when a group of students surrounded a 13-
year-old boy on the Bouchet playground and shot him in the foot with
a BB gun, authorities said.
Police confiscated the weapon in that second case, but yet ...