Student caught with weapon during Cross Creek High fight
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Two Augusta students have been caught with knives this week, a few days after a gun was confiscated at Butler High School.
A student also had a weapon during a fight at Cross Creek High School.
The incidents come after a school year when a gun was found on a Richmond County campus nearly every month.
The latest incident happened on Wednesday. According to a letter sent home to families, several students were involved in a fight in the parking lot. School staff and school system police responded and sent the students home.
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During the investigation, it was determined that one student had a weapon that was not used during the fight.
On Tuesday, a student took out the knife and showed it to other students, parents were told in a letter.
Students reported the knife to their bus driver, who confiscated it and reported it to the istration.
It comes after a similar incident Monday at Murphey Middle School, according to a letter to parents.
A student brought a knife to school and showed it to other students, according to the letter.
An istrative search was conducted and the weapon was confiscated, the letter says.
Both knife incidents were addressed according to the code of student conduct and discipline.
On Friday, a gun was at Butler High School, according to a letter sent to parents.
s received a report that a student may have a weapon. istration and Richmond County School System police conducted a search, and a handgun was found and confiscated, parents were told.
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The incident was addressed by school district police and the code of student conduct, according to the letter.
In other incidents in the past week at local schools:
- The McCormick County School District went on lockdown and canceled all after-school activities Monday due to a threat. Students were released early and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division swept the buildings.
- Parents were told that Grovetown Elementary in Columbia County had some first responders at the school Monday, but instruction wasn’t interrupted.
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