By Emilie Raguso

BERKELEYSIDE: A Berkeley elementary school student found a loaded gun and took it to school with him Monday, officials said.

An Emerson Elementary School teacher discovered the student with the handgun, said police. Staff took possession of the gun and called police to turn it in, said Lt. Dan Montgomery of BPD.

Montgomery said officers later went to the boy’s home to learn more from him and his parents, “In large part to check on the safety and welfare of the child and to make sure there was no threat of violence in the future at the school.”

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