A student from Tara Hi, who gave up a loaded pistol bag arrested in a third recent incident with a pistol at school – the lawyer

A 16-year-old student at Tara High School in Baton Rouge was removed on Monday after being arrested for bringing a loaded pistol to a school in his bag.

This is the third arrest associated with the weapon last month of a student who brought a loaded firearm to the campus of the State School in Baton Rouge and the 12th incident so far this school year.

In the previous two incidents, students from the Woodlawn high school managed to slide weapons along metal detectors, the latter by hiding a gun inside the pillow of his wheelchair.

The dean of Tara Hi’s students found a book bag and gun on Monday morning shortly after the start of school. The parish sheriff’s MPs in East Baton Ruzhi spent a search of the school and found the student who owned the bag. The student, unidentified 11th grade, told MPs that he did not know that the gun was in his bag.

“The student abandoned the backpack after seeing the security measures upon arrival,” Tara Director John Hayman said high in his parents’ message.

“This incident enhances the importance of our safety protocols. … We firmly believe that our security measures have helped prevent entering our campus of this weapon. “

A underage student is faced with the number of illegal carrier weapons, carrying a firearm or a dangerous weapon in the school property and owns a gun in an area without a firearm.

Lamont Cole, head of the East Baton Rouge Public School public school, recently made a series of moves to improve campuse security in response to the recent number of weapons incidents. Cole said Tara’s high incident is part of an “anxious trend” where children have “easy access to weapons”.

“While the metal tutorials may have prevented a more dangerous situation, the fact that the student has access and felt forced to bring a loaded pistol to school, emphasizes a more in -depth issue of safety and the need for comprehensive community support systems,” Cole said.

He called for more access to mental health resources, education to resolve conflicts and community commitment as ways to persuade students not to seek weapons or bring them to school.

One step that Cole recently took was to persuade the parish school board to spend more than $ 334,000 in four years to buy four modern weapons screens made by Boston suburban based in Boston Evolv.

AI-powered devices have been ordered and will be installed later this month in four district high schools, but not Tara High. Cole said he tests scanners in Woodlawn, Scotlandville, Belaire and McKinley High Schools. If they are sufficiently strengthening security, as expected, it will buy more from the devices for additional schools in the school neighborhood in East Baton Rouge.

On the screens of Evolv, they use artificial intelligence to detect weapons, both metal and those that are not. As students pass through scanners similar to the Evolv tower, at a normal rate, low -frequency radio waves are warmed on them and these waves become images. Images are analyzed using AI to identify all weapons that students can conceal.