Police: Student charged after bringing gun to El Portal school

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Kingjajah Jerold Clarke. (Miami-Dade Corrections & Rehabilitation/Google Maps)

EL PORTAL, Fla. – A 17-year-old has been criminally charged aft helium allegedly brought a weapon to schoolhouse successful El Portal, Local 10 News learned Monday.

According to an apprehension study from Miami-Dade Schools Police, the incidental happened April 25 astatine Dr. Marvin Dunn Academy for Community Education, located astatine 8950 NW Second Ave.

The study states that an “administrative search” connected Kingjajah Jerold Clarke’s bookbag revealed a weapon wrong – specifically a Taurus 9 mm semi-automatic handgun.

Police said Clarke fled the schoolhouse grounds erstwhile the weapon was discovered, but was located disconnected field and taken into custody.

According to the report, Clarke declined to talk with constabulary without an lawyer present.

The study does not specify whether schoolhouse administrators were alerted astir the limb earlier searching the container oregon whether the weapon was discovered during a regular search.

Clarke was booked into the Juvenile Assessment Center aft his arrest.

He is charged with possession of a firearm connected schoolhouse property. It’s unclear whether the authorities volition determine to complaint him arsenic an big successful the case.