The first day of Sweetwater Union High School District’s new online school year was only hours old Monday when a student was taken into police custody for brandishing a firearm during a virtual classroom session.
San Diego Police Department officers were called to the home of a 15-year-old student who attends Southwest High School in the South Bay. The firearm was found to be a BB gun, according to district spokesman Manny Rubio.
The student, who was not identified, apologized for what he described as a “dumb joke,” Rubio said.
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As of early Monday afternoon, the student remained in police custody on a “medical hold,” Rubio said,
Sweetwater Union High was the first district in the county to start the new school year. The district will provide only online learning until Oct. 2 with the possibility of reopening physical campuses if San Diego County is off the state’s monitoring list for COVID-19 infection rates.
