Parent wonders how 8-year-old brought gun to Philadelphia school

March 7, 2001
One day after a third-grade classmate took a loaded gun to a West Philadelphia school to threaten a girl, the mother of the intended victim wondered how

One day after a third-grade classmate took a loaded gun to a West Philadelphia school to threaten a girl, the mother of the intended victim wondered

how an 8-year-old boy could obtain a deadly weapon and cart it around school undetected for hours..

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