Boy suspended from school after posting picture of soda cans shaped like gun

Jessica KwongPublished Sep 23, 2024, 9:07pm|Updated Sep 23, 2024, 9:08pm

A mediate school pupil was suspended aft posting a photograph of Dr Pepper cans arranged successful the signifier of an battle rifle.

The 13-year-old boy’s mother, Riley Grunden, is lasting powerfully by her son.

‘I americium precise mad,’ Grunden told KY3. ‘I consciousness similar kids can’t beryllium kids anymore.’

The Liberty Middle School pupil is accused of stacking much than a half-dozen soda cans to marque them look similar an AK-47 rifle.

A representation of his instauration posted online showed respective of the burgundy-colored cans successful a consecutive enactment and 2 others placed to perchance mimic the pistol grip and magazine.

Officials astatine the schoolhouse successful Mountain View, Missouri, made the lad crook himself successful to the district’s cardinal bureau past Tuesday arsenic concerns emerged implicit the post, Grunden said.

‘When I went to the cardinal bureau I was determination to support my lad due to the fact that I consciousness similar helium did thing wrong,’ the parent said.

‘Dr Pepper cans this is simply a threat?’

The boy, who has not been identified, was suspended for 3 days and has been taxable to searches connected campus.

Grunden argued that her lad did not marque nonstop threats to immoderate students, the schoolhouse oregon district.

If that were the case, ‘he would beryllium successful a batch of occupation not conscionable astatine schoolhouse but astatine home’, she claimed.

The Mountain View Birch Tree R-III School District successful a missive to families shared connected Facebook pleaded for ‘help and support’ pursuing the incident.

‘Some societal media posts tin origin accent connected our students, families, and staff. Social media tin besides disrupt the learning environment,’ it read.

‘We inquire that you speech to your kid astir the seriousness of making a menace oregon posting thing of a threatening quality (images of weapons, convulsive opus lyrics, violet videos, etc.)’

The territory warned that threats against a schoolhouse oregon pupil person ‘serious ineligible and disciplinary consequences’.

‘Posts of this quality are not comic oregon entertaining and volition not beryllium considered a gag oregon signifier of entertainment,’ stated the letter.

The lad was disciplined a time aft an 11-year-old lad attending Creekside Middle School successful Florida was arrested and perp walked for allegedly having a cache of weapons and threatening to shoot up 2 schools.

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