Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The boys, who are now facing juvenile charges, brought the guns to basketball games and into school classrooms undetected for two days.
Four Whitefish Bay Middle School students are now facing juvenile charges and school disciplinary measures for pulling unlocked bb guns and pellet guns on their teammates before basketball practice last week. Since the incident was first reported two weeks ago, the subject of guns in schools, school safety and disciplinary repercussions have elevated in the Patch comments section—a dialogue similar to the gun culture discussions occurring in Congress and in the media since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. The four students involved—a 13-year-old boy and three 12-year-old boys—have not been in school since Jan. 17. The School Board is meeting in closed session Monday to hold expulsion hearings, although …
Friday, January 18, 2013
Police confiscated the guns from the three 12-year-olds and the 13-year-olds involved. District officials determined it was safe to hold regular classes today.
Four Whitefish Bay Middle School students could face juvenile charges for brandishing an unlocked BB gun and pellet gun at Whitefish Bay High School Wednesday. After receiving a report from a middle school student at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, a Whitefish Bay police investigation found that four students displayed two weapons — an unloaded BB gun and an unloaded pellet gun — after school hours at Whitefish Bay High School on Wednesday, according to Whitefish Bay police. One 13-year-old student and three 12-year-old students were questioned and released to their parents. All four students will be referred to Milwaukee County Children’s Court Center for review of charges that will include possession of a dangerous weapon on school premises, …
Thursday, August 30, 2012
To preserve his expensive bird feed, a resident on Day Avenue has been shooting unwanted squirrels and birds with a pellet gun from the back window of his house.
The sight of dead, bullet-stricken birds and squirrels has become too much to bear for some residents on the far west end of the village. A resident called police at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 20 to report a neighbor on Day Avenue near Lydell Avenue has been shooting squirrels and birds. Police responded to the house to talk to the 73-year-old man, who said he had shot multiple birds and squirrels with a .177 caliber pellet gun from an open window in his house. The man told police he recently invested in a nice bird feeding area, and to preserve his expensive bird feed, he has been shooting and killing unwanted birds and squirrels that try to eat the food. The man told police he did not know it was illegal to discharge a firearm in the village. He …
A WFB Resident
4:10 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
I agree, AWD and I will be happy to be a part of that group. more ›