Michigan mom says 11-year-old son was expelled after dismantling classmate's loaded gun at school
The incident happened in May at Dwight Rich School of the Arts in Lansing after a student allegedly brought a loaded gun to school.
By Minyvonne Burke
September 23, 2024
The incident happened in May at Dwight Rich School of the Arts in Lansing after a student allegedly brought a loaded gun to school.
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…The incident happened after an unidentified student allegedly brought a loaded gun to the middle school. McClurkin said the student pulled out the gun in a bathroom and "gave my son a firearm."
"Like here, take this, hold on to this," she said.
Sakir, who knows how to hunt and learned about gun safety from his godfather, knew the weapon was not allowed in school.
"Sakir's natural reaction was there's no way I'm going to hold on to this gun all day," his mother said. "He proceeded to go to class ... and dismantled it in class. There was a teacher in class and everything. People were around and everything."
After her son took the gun apart, McClurkin said, he "put it inside of a heater" in the classroom and threw the bullets in a garbage can.
"He didn't want it on his person, but he didn't want nobody to mess with it," she said about why her son dismantled the firearm.
Asked why Sakir did not immediately tell an adult about the gun, McClurkin said it was because he was scared and was never taught what to do in that situation.…