A 15-year-old boy brought a loaded gun to his Queens school Thursday, police said, the second such incident this week.
School staff at York Early College Academy in Jamaica called police at about 9 a.m. after finding the .38 revolver.
It was not immediately clear how the boy got the gun or why he brought it to school.
On Tuesday, an 11-year-old boy took a loaded gun from under his grandfather’s bed and brought it to his school, P.S. 40, also in Jamaica.
The boy’s grandfather, 54-year-old Kenneth Miley, was charged with second- and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, first-degree reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child and unauthorized possession of a pistol, revolver or ammunition, a violation of the city’s administrative code. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison.
He was held in lieu of $30,000 bail at his arraignment late Wednesday night. An attorney for Miley did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Miley told investigators that he had found the gun and was planning on bringing it to a police precinct to turn it in, but had placed it under his bed in the meantime, according to the complaint. Police allegedly found two rounds of ammunition under a bed as well.
The boy said he knew how to load and unload a gun, authorities said.
Miley’s next court appearance is scheduled for March 29.
