Josh Cross

jcross@mtcngroup.com

Two Gallatin High School students have been arrested after police say one of them brought a loaded gun onto school property Tuesday.

Gallatin High School administrators were tipped off by another student around 9:30 a.m. that a 17-year-old male student may have had a gun, according to Lt. Danny Hurst with the Sumner County Sheriff's Office.

"In return, (Principal Ron Becker) notified the school resource officer and then two SROs went with Dr. Becker to the room and retrieved the person that possibly had the weapon," Hurst said.

The student was found to be carrying a loaded gun and a pocketknife and was taken into custody without incident, said Hurst. He was charged with two counts of carrying a weapon on school property.

A second Gallatin High School student has also been arrested and charged with illegal possession of a firearm, said Hurst.

"We've got enough probable cause that he was in possession of the same weapon, although not on school property, the week before," Hurst said Wednesday.

The names of the students have not been released.

The 17-year-old had made no threat toward any individual associated with the school, said Sumner County Schools spokesman Jeremy Johnson. The school was never on lockdown.

"Schools have crisis response plans on different scenarios, so it went like we have trained to do it. No one was put in danger by the firearm," Hurst said.

"We are very fortunate that we have tremendous law enforcement presence within our school system through the Sumner County Sheriff's School Resource Officer Program," said GHS Principal Ron Becker in a letter addressed to parents. "Our School Resource Officer (Deputy Renee Workings) was able to react quickly and prevent an incident from happening within our school."