Two teens in custody after cops recover gun at Brooklyn high school

A teenage lad and miss were taken into custody aft constabulary recovered a firearm successful a bookbag astatine a Brooklyn precocious schoolhouse Thursday afternoon, cops said.

A extremity led officers to retrieve the limb from a 16-year-old boy’s backpack astatine Metropolitan Diploma Plus High School connected Rockaway Ave. adjacent Linden Blvd. successful Brownsville astatine 12:26 p.m., constabulary said.

The lad and a girl, besides property 16, were taken into constabulary custody. No charges person been filed, cops said.

The schoolhouse was placed into a “soft lockdown” — a authorities of readiness successful which administrators and information agents are alerted to a menace posing nary contiguous information — earlier constabulary seized the gun, according to instrumentality enforcement.

Thursday’s betterment of a firearm follows a weapon scare astatine an Upper West Side campus earlier this month.

On Sept. 13, the Louis D. Brandeis High School field connected 84th St. betwixt Columbus and Amsterdam Aves. was enactment connected lockdown pursuing what yet proved to beryllium a noncredible study of an equipped idiosyncratic wrong the building.

No limb was recovered arsenic a effect of that report.