10/25/06

School's security beefed up after antique gun is found

Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006

By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer
Staff Writer

Security at a Catawba County high school will be increased after the discovery Tuesday of an unloaded, antique pistol in an unassigned locker.

Officials at Bunker Hill High School received an anonymous tip Tuesday morning that a gun was being stored in a locker, said Maj. Coy Reid of the Catawba County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities monitored the locker from a nearby classroom for several hours, Reid said, but no student tried to open the locker.

The locker was not assigned when school started in August, he said.

Authorities do not have any suspects, Reid said.

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