CHICAGO (CBS) — Three Evanston Township Excessive College college students are going through felony costs, a day after the college was locked down for hours when officers discovered two weapons within the constructing.
No pictures had been fired and no college students had been injured in the course of the incident, which prompted authorities to lock down the college for a lot of the faculty day on Thursday as police investigated.
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Police mentioned all of it started round 9:30 a.m. when an Evanston Police faculty useful resource officer was made conscious of scholars probably smoking marijuana in a toilet.
When that officer and members of the college security crew went to research, police say two college students had been instantly detained for smoking, and through that investigation additionally they discovered two handguns, which triggered the hours-long lockdown.
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Police mentioned safety footage later revealed seven different college students beforehand had been within the rest room as effectively, and had been detained.
Friday afternoon, police mentioned two 16-year-old boys had been charged as juveniles with felony aggravated use of a weapon on faculty grounds. One other 16-year-old boy was charged as a juvenile with misdemeanor hashish possession.
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The opposite six college students who had been detained have been launched with out costs.
