John Tracy for New York Daily News
A 9-year-old set children into a panic Monday after brining a paintball gun into school, a source said.
An emotionally disturbed 9-year-old student brought a paintball gun to a Brooklyn public school, panicking kids who thought he had a loaded weapon, officials said.
The fourth-grader flashed the fake firearm to students in the cafeteria of PS 224 on Wortman Ave. in East New York around 10 a.m. Monday and sent children into a frenzy, sources said.
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“Kids were running through the hallway screaming ‘He’s got a gun, he’s going to kill us,’” said a source in the building.
School administrators cornered the kid and brought him to a separate room where he showed them the paintball gun, sources said.
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NYPD officers were called to the school to check out the incident, and the child was soon led off school grounds and to a local hospital for observation, officials said.
No one was injured and the school never went into lockdown, officials said.
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Principal George Andrews sent a letter home to parents explaining the incident, said Dept. of Education spokeswoman Marge Feinberg.
PS 224 has previously made headlines after struggling students were denied mandatory tutoring sessions in 2010 and 2011.
Administrators also required kids to attend lectures in classrooms crawling with bed bugs in 2012.
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