Overview

• Police were called at 9:53 a.m. to the East Flatbush campus on Kings Highway near E. 96th St., according to officials.
• Officers found a loaded 9mm handgun in the student’s waistband just before 10 a.m. and took him into custody.
• Charges are pending as investigators work to determine why the firearm was brought to school and how it was obtained.
• The school does not use metal detectors; sources offered differing accounts of how staff were alerted, including a possible phone tip or a student notifying teachers.
• The incident follows a recent case at Queens’ Benjamin Cardozo High School in which a student was arrested after an Instagram threat and a loaded handgun was recovered.