4-Year-Old Brought Loaded Gun to Preschool, Police Say
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OKLAHOMA CITY — A 4-year-old boy was suspended for a year after he took his parents’ loaded pistol to his Oklahoma preschool, police and school officials said Tuesday.
The two-shot .38-caliber pistol was loaded with especially lethal hollow-point bullets, which are designed to maximize damage to a target by flattening on impact.
Police in Putnam City, a suburb of Oklahoma City, said the boy, thinking the weapon was a toy, took the gun from a table next to his parents’ bed, put it into his backpack along with a toy pistol and took it to school Oct. 25.
The case only became public this week.
A teacher quickly discovered the real gun when she searched his backpack after he started playing with the toy version, school officials said.
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