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A 7-year-old student brought a loaded gun to an elementary school in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood on Thursday, police say.

A teenager with a loaded gun at a charter school in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Thursday has been arrested, police said. No one was hurt in the incident at Phoenix Charter Academy Chelsea, according to Chelsea police. Administrators called 911 about 2:27 p.m. after one took the weapon from the student. The student, 16, was being taken to police headquarters and their…

A 17-year-old student accused of bringing a gun to Boston’s Charlestown High School Thursday was held without bail Friday pending a dangerousness hearing. The student is one of two arrested after two guns were recovered at the school, resulting in an hourslong investigation that sent the rest of the students home early. Metal detectors, which had been taken out...

A pair of guns were found at Boston’s Charlestown High School Thursday and two students were arrested, officials said, after an hourslong investigation that sent the rest of students home early. The students are 13 and 17, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, which didn’t name them. Police said Thursday afternoon that the first weapon, a loaded...

Boston police searched for a gun after a threat was reported to staff at John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Jamaica Plain Friday morning, officials said. No weapon was found, police said later in the morning, and the students’ school day was able to continue as scheduled. There was no threat to students. School staff were made aware of statements…

A student was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly brought a loaded gun to a charter school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Police say the incident happened at Prospect Hill Academy. Eighteen-year-old Jemi Pearson of Cambridge was removed from class and taken into custody. The Cambridge Police Department said Pearson faces charges of carrying a loaded firearm without a license, carrying a firearm…

Police say a gun was recovered on Friday morning at a school in South Boston. Boston police said a firearm was recovered at Excel High School at 95 G St. Excel High School officials said they were notified of a safety concern that was addressed around 7:50 a.m. when a gun was found in a student’s backpack as he attempted…

One person was killed and another was injured in an early morning shooting at a Rhode Island social club, police said Monday. The shooting occured just after 1 a.m. at the Friendly Sons of Newport club, city police said in a statement. Both victims were taken to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. One died of multiple gunshot injuries and the…

A man brought a loaded pistol to Boston Logan International Airport on Friday, which became the second gun to be confiscated at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the airport over the Thanksgiving holiday rush, the agency said. The latest incident took place about 5:30 a.m. Friday at Terminal B, according to a TSA news release. The man, from Maine,…

A woman with a loaded handgun in her carry-on bag was stopped at a security checkpoint at Logan International Airport in Boston on the day before Thanksgiving, according to the Transportation Security Administration. The handgun had five rounds when it was found in the bag on Wednesday, TSA spokesperson Dan Velez said in a tweet. State police were called and…

A Massachusetts woman is facing a criminal charge after the gun she had stored in her purse accidentally went off while she was inside a Walmart store in Northborough on Monday. The 31-year-old Worcester woman, identified as Crystaly Perez, is charged with discharging a firearm within 500 feet of an occupied building, Northborough police said. Shortly after 8:30 p.m. Monday,…

Brockton High School students must walk through metal detectors before heading to class Monday morning after a student brought a gun to school.

A student brought a gun to Brockton High School, a scary situation for parents and students but one that was resolved peacefully.

After a student was arrested with a gun at Brockton High School, Brockton Public Schools Superintendent Michael Thomas discussed the emotional strain on children just returning to classes amid the pandemic and how administrators need to support them.

Lee la historia en español aquí. Police in Natick, Massachusetts, are warning residents to be on the lookout for a gun that was inadvertently left on top of someone’s vehicle and may have fallen off in the area of a local elementary school. Natick police said the person reported losing the gun in the area of the Lilja Elementary...

A man was arrested after allegedly pointing a gun at a driver on Interstate 95 in Lexington, Massachusetts, Monday, police said. Javier Lopez, 22, was pulled over on Route 3 in Billerica shortly after the road rage incident was reported at 3 p.m., Massachusetts State Police said Tuesday. Lopez, who lives in Lowell, was told he’d been stopped because someone…