EATON TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- Charges are pending against an 8-year-old Lorain County student who brought a loaded gun to school Thursday morning.

A student told staff members at Midview Elementary School North that he saw an 8-year-old classmate who had a gun. A teacher confiscated it and contacted police, the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office said.

Police came to the school, located on Durkee Road in Eaton Township, shortly after 9 a.m. The boy was taken to the Lorain County Juvenile Detention Home.

No injuries were reported.

The Lorain County Prosecutor’s Office will determine whether to file charges. Investigators with the sheriff’s office have not said how the child got ahold of the gun.

There are no criminal charges filed in the case as of Thursday afternoon in the ongoing investigation.

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