Police called after 4-year-old pulls out loaded pistol magazine at preschool

Police were called to the Hilton Head Island Early Childhood Center on Friday after a 4-year-old pulled a loaded firearm magazine from his backpack...

December 14, 2022
4:34 AM

Police were called to the Hilton Head Island Early Childhood Center on Friday after a 4-year-old pulled a loaded firearm magazine from his backpack during class, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office reported.The principal at the South Carolina school, which educates students up to kindergarten, told police that a teacher alerted her to the situation after the student pulled out the magazine, which had 14 rounds of live ammunition it. When he was questioned, the 4-year-old did not want to talk and 'began to get upset,' police said in the report.

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