Virginia parents arrested after gun went off inside 3rd grader's backpack at school

A brace of Virginia parents were arrested aft their third-grade lad grabbed an unsecured handgun wrong the home, enactment it successful his backpack and went to school, wherever it inadvertently went disconnected during class, according to officials.

Ciara Armstead, 36, and Terrence Carroll Jr., 34, were charged with recklessly leaving a loaded, unsecured firearm truthful arsenic to endanger the beingness oregon limb of a kid nether the property of 14, a misdemeanor, and willfully oregon negligently causing oregon permitting the beingness of a kid to beryllium endangered, a felony.

The kid had recovered an unsecured handgun successful his location and enactment the weapon into his backpack earlier going to schoolhouse astatine Lee Hill Elementary School successful Spotsylvania County connected Monday, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office said successful a property release.

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Ciara Armstead and Terrence Carroll Jr. are facing charges aft a weapon successful their third-grade son's backpack inadvertently went disconnected astatine school. (Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office)

Shortly earlier 11 a.m. connected Monday, the kid reached into his backpack during people to drawback thing and inadvertently pulled the trigger connected the gun, the sheriff's bureau said.

After the weapon went off, the teacher instantly evacuated each 26 students from the schoolroom and notified the School Resource Officer of the incident.

The kid had recovered an unsecured handgun successful his location and enactment the weapon into his schoolhouse backpack earlier going to school. (Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office )

There were nary carnal injuries to immoderate children oregon staff, according to the sheriff's office.

The sheriff's bureau said its probe recovered that the kid did not mean to harm anyone.

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The kid had reached into his backpack during people to drawback thing and inadvertently pulled the trigger connected the gun. (iStock)

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Armstead and Carroll Jr. were released connected a $5,000 unsecured bond. Both person an arraignment scheduled for Friday successful Spotsylvania County Juvenile Domestic Court.

The kid is not facing charges successful transportation with the incident.