Charges have been filed against a student who brought a gun onto the Anchorage High School campus, police said

Updated: 6 Hours ago Published: 6 Hours ago

Charges have been filed against a student who Anchorage police say brought a handgun onto the campuses of two high schools Monday.

Officers received a report of a student with a gun on the Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School campus Monday afternoon, Anchorage police said in a statement. Officers discovered that the student had brought a handgun to King Tech High School earlier in the day and then took the bus to East High for classes, police said.

Police said the student initially brought the gun onto the East High campus, but then left the school and returned without the weapon.

“The student was contacted by police in a classroom at East High School after the weapon had already been removed from campus,” the police statement said.

East High was placed in “stay mode,” with students ordered to remain in their classrooms, after the student was reported to staff there, Principal Ron Brown wrote in a letter to families obtained from the Anchorage School District was provided. Officers evacuated the classroom where they contacted the student and did not find a weapon when searching the student, Brown said in the letter.

Charges against the student have been referred to the Division of Juvenile Justice, police said. There was no evidence that threats were made with the weapon, it said.