Sacramento deputies chase down and evacuate school bus; find student with replica gun
Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies on Thursday chased down a school bus after receiving a report a Monterey Trail High School student had a firearm, which turned out to be an Airsoft replica gun.
That morning, Monterey Trail High officials received a report of a student who was rumored to be in possession of a gun, according to a message sent to parents.
Campus officials contacted law enforcement and began investigating before the school day started, Monterey Trail High Principal Lara Ricks wrote in the message. School officials and security staff identified and found where the student was that morning.
Deputies received the report of a student possibly in possession of a gun on the school bus. The deputies chased down the school bus and questioned the student in question while evacuating the rest of the students off the bus, said Sgt. Rodney Grassmann, a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokesman.
The deputies discovered the student had an Airsoft gun, Grassman said.
Ricks said the student was searched, and deputies confiscated the unloaded gun. The principal said all students were safe and uninjured, and the school took “appropriate action” following the incident.
“Please take some time to remind your student that weapons, of any kind, are strictly prohibited on our campus, and any student found in possession of a weapon may face consequences up to expulsion and arrest,” Ricks wrote in the message to parents. “Similarly, making threats to use a weapon is a serious offense.”
The principal also told Monterey Trail High students, staff, parents and the surrounding community “if you see something or know something, say something.”
This was second time in eight days that a report of a Monterey Trail High student with a gun led to a response from law enforcement.
On April 20, deputies found a student with a loaded gun at the Elk Grove campus and confiscated the weapon, according to the school district. The gun, which had not been brandished, was confiscated, according to the Elk Grove Unified School District.
This story was originally published April 29, 2022 at 3:30 PM.
