Carrboro Police Respond to Reports of 'Edged Weapon' at McDougle Middle School

Carrboro Police were called to McDougle Middle School on Monday.

Carrboro Police Captain Chris Atack says officers responded to the school, on Fayetteville Road, to assist staff in two cases of a weapon being brought on campus.

“The School Resource Officer was contacted by staff on some information that they had gotten from other students,” Atack says, “and basically just stood by while staff was able to locate a weapon in a backpack of a student at the school.”

Atack says that discovery led staff members to another incident on campus.

“As a result of that investigation, there was additional information that led to another student who had also something in their backpack and in their locker that met the legal criteria for the charge of weapon on educational property.”

Atack says the weapon in each circumstance was not a firearm but an “edged weapon.” Chapel Hill – Carrboro City School system spokesperson Jeff Nash says, in at least one of the instances, the item was some kind of throwing star.

Atack adds there was no evidence to suggest either student intended to injure anyone or use the weapon in any malicious manner.

Atack says it was his understanding the students had brought the items to show each other at school on Monday.

Atack says that the school system is handling the discipline of the students.

Nash adds that a student at McDougle Elementary School, also on Monday, brought a toy gun to campus. Nash says it is his understanding that the student was playing with the toy gun on the bus, alarming some of the other students.

No discipline sanctions were disclosed among any of incidents by the school system.