3 Boys Arrested After Guns, Device Found at Denver School

Source: AP

Three students — two found with handguns, the other with an unidentified device — were arrested Friday after causing a one-hour lockdown at a Denver middle school. No one was injured.

Students at Skinner Middle School reported the boys to school officials, who triggered the lockdown, police said.

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Several children said that they were told to go to the school auditorium and that the school was on lockdown. Once in the auditorium, students were told there was a youth with a gun, they said.

"We had so many drills I didn't know if it was a drill or not, but we took it seriously," said Maxcine Forsythe, 12. She said students kept as quiet as they could until they were given the all-clear.

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