7-year-old injures hand after accidentally discharging firearm in Maryland classroom

A 7-year-old pupil was injured Wednesday aft a firearm accidentally discharged wrong a schoolroom astatine Freetown Elementary School successful Maryland, authorities said.

The Anne Arundel County Police Department said the 2nd people student, who had the firearm, injured his manus erstwhile the limb discharged. 

Other students were contiguous successful the classroom, but nary further injuries were reported.

The Anne Arundel County Public Schools said connected X that it is moving with constabulary and providing enactment services to students pursuing the incident.

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A kid was injured Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, aft a firearm accidentally discharged wrong a schoolroom astatine Freetown Elementary School successful Maryland. (Freetown Elementary )

"The schoolhouse volition disregard each students astatine 11:15 a.m. today. Bus riders volition beryllium transported location via the mean routes. If you request to marque alternate arrangements for your student, delight telephone the school. We volition supply further accusation arsenic we get it," the territory said Wednesday.

WBAL-TV 11 reported the pupil sustained a non-life-threatening wounded and was taken to the hospital.

"A pupil had a firearm successful his possession, a 2nd people student, successful a classroom. That firearm discharged astatine a definite point," Anne Arundel County constabulary spokesperson Justin Mulcahy told the outlet.

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A kid was injured Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, aft a firearm accidentally discharged wrong a schoolroom astatine Freetown Elementary School successful Maryland. (iStock)

Mulcahy said officers received calls astir 8:30 a.m of shots fired and were capable to get astatine the schoolhouse wrong six minutes.

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Police said the teacher acted instantly to unafraid the firearm and assistance the injured child.

"A 7-year-old kid gained entree to a firearm, discharged it successful a school, a schoolroom filled with children. We should not beryllium having this property league with you close now," Anne Arundel County Police Chief Amal Awad told WBAL-TV 11. "How did a 7-year-old babe get ahold of a firearm and marque it each the mode to school?"

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Anne Arundel County Public Schools Superintendent Mark Bedell told the section presumption that the determination to disregard students aboriginal was made due to the fact that "there's a batch of trauma."

"Not lone wrong the students who were successful this building, but besides the module and staff," Bedell said. "I tin guarantee you that my absorption would person been precisely what these parents were reacting, filled with a boatload of fear."

The schoolhouse authoritative said Freetown Elementary would beryllium unfastened connected Thursday arsenic scheduled.