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Student Found With Gun at High School

A teenager was charged Wednesday with bringing an unloaded handgun to East Chapel Hill High School, police said.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A teenager was charged Wednesday with bringing an unloaded handgun to East Chapel Hill High School, police said.

Samuel James Clay Harvey, 16, was charged with possession of a weapon on school grounds and possession of a weapon by a minor, police said.

Someone at East Chapel Hill High told a school resource officer that a student had a gun in the school. The officer found an unloaded .38-caliber gun in the student's bookbag, police said.

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