Florida school goes into lockdown after discovering gun in pupil’s bag

An elementary school in Florida, Coopergate Elementary School, Wednesday went into a lockdown after a gun was discovered in a pupil’s backpack.

It was alleged that the pupil, a little girl, had forgotten to deliver the gun to her father whom the dangerous weapon belongs to.

According to local media reports, her mother, Sierra Nichole Bronner, 39, of Middleburg had allegedly packed the weapon in the student’s backpack to have her give it back to her father, who lives separately, before the school day, but the child forgot.

When the girl opened her backpack while at school, she allegedly discovered the gun and informed a teacher, prompting a modified lockdown, Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook said.

The father, who was not identified, had driven the girl to school and was unaware the child had the weapon in her bag, Daily Mail reports.

Students were still allowed to continue with class but were not allowed to leave or enter school grounds until police completed their work.

Bronner was arrested on felony charges of child neglect and giving a firearm to a minor.

She was taken to the Clay County Jail.