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Reports Of Mahwah Threat Prompt Young Boy To Bring Airsoft Gun To School Reports Of Mahwah Threat Prompt Young Boy To Bring Airsoft Gun To School
Reports Of Mahwah Threat Prompt Young Boy To Bring Airsoft Gun To School MAHWAH, N.J. -- Amid unprecedented security prompted by a purported threat by a middle schooler, a frightened Mahwah youngster brought an airsoft gun to his elementary school in his backpack Friday morning. "He had no intention of causing harm," Schools Supt. C. Lauren Schoen said Sunday night. It wasn't until Saturday that a Joyce Kilmer School parent told school officials that the boy showed fellow 4th- and 5th-grade students the weapon -- which shoots plastic pellets -- during the morning bus ride the day before, she said. Mahwah police were out in force at township schools on…

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by Jerry DeMarco