Two 10-Year-Olds Arrested in Florida for School Gun Sale

The students, one the son of a deputy, were involved in a $300 transaction involving a deceased father's handgun, sparking a school lockdown.

Two 10-year-old students at Country Oaks Elementary in LaBelle, Florida, were arrested after one sold a gun belonging to his deceased father to a classmate for $300.
The sale led to a brief lockdown of the school after authorities were tipped off about a suspicious incident.
Ammunition and 74 grams of marijuana were found in the backpack of the boy who bought the gun, with the firearm itself discovered hidden under a shed in his backyard.
The mother of the boy who sold the gun, a Hendry County deputy, has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
Both students are now in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice, with officials expressing heartbreak over the situation and concern for what led the children to this point.