Second-Grader Brings Gun To School Class

A second-grader brought a gun to his Queens elementary school yesterday, Department of Education officials said.

The student was showing the .38 caliber pistol to his classmates at P.S. 63 in Ozone Park when one of them told a teacher, a Department of Education spokeswoman, Dina Paul Parks, said. The teacher then approached the student and asked him to show her what was in his pocket, Ms. Parks said.

"He took everything out of his pockets and indeed there was gun," she said, adding that the student willingly handed over the gun to his teacher without firing it.

Police, who are investigating the incident, said the boy's 14-year-old brother had brought the gun home and that his mother was aware of it. The brother and mother would face charges, police said.

Ms. Parks said the Department of Education would base disciplinary action on the findings of the police investigation.