LEESBURG, FLA.— Wednesday, on the same day that a 14-year-old was arrested and charged with killing four people at a Georgia high school, police arrested a 16-year-old girl at Leesburg High on charges of possessing a stolen handgun.
A school resource officer arrested Daya Lee in a classroom after a teacher’s aide notified authorities.
The teacher’s aide said Lee told her that she had a gun in her bag, then showed it to her. When police asked her why she would tell a teacher’s aide, she said, “I was just playing,” according to the probable cause affidavit.
She said she was unaware the gun was stolen. It was reported stolen on Aug. 4 in Leesburg.
She said she went to the restroom that morning with a friend who asked her if she would hold the gun, and she said she would. The friend gave her a purse to hold the weapon. “…she said she and her friends pass the weapon to each other on campus from day to day.”
Police said the Taurus handgun had one live round in the chamber and 12 in the magazine.
Police arrest students across the county each year for carrying firearms.
Colt Gray was arrested in the slaying of two teachers and two students and wounding eight others at Apalachee High in Winder, Ga.