Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah prosecutors are filing theft and gun charges against teenager who police say fired a shotgun into a junior high classroom ceiling before he was stopped by his parents.
Prosecutors want to try the 15-year-old boy as an adult on five charges filed Thursday. He’s accused of taking two guns from his parents’ safe and bringing them to school along with two boxes of ammunition hidden under a long coat.
Police say his parents were concerned about him the morning of Dec. 1 and followed him to school after discovering the missing weapons.
Authorities say his parents heard the shot and disarmed him at Mueller Park Junior High in Bountiful, about 11 miles north of Salt Lake City.
No one was hurt. The Associated Press is not naming the boy because of his age.