Mukilteo students in trouble for cap gun at school

A week after a 9-year-old Bremerton student had a gun discharge in his backpack, seriously injuring a fellow student, several students at a Mukilteo middle school are in trouble after a cap gun was brought on campus.

“Apparently was showing it off to some other students and they fired it. This all happened before school even started,” said District spokesperson Andy Muntz. “Then some other students were upset by that.”

Muntz says a teacher discovered the cap gun.

“A staff member happened to see this so they then took the students into the office.”

The principal at Olympic View Middle School has sent home a letter to parents explaining what happened, and said the children involved received “appropriate punishment.”

“It gets into sort of a more fuzzy area when it’s not really a weapon, it’s just a toy,” said Muntz. “But still we treat it as if it’s something that is serious. We have a no tolerance policy on that kind of thing especially, in light of the shootings that have taken place here in the last several weeks.”