{"id":773307,"date":"2026-05-04T20:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773307\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:20:16","slug":"handgun-seized-from-student-at-jacksonville-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773307\/","title":{"rendered":"Handgun seized from student at Jacksonville middle school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Jacksonville police are investigating after a handgun was found in a middle school student\u2019s backpack on campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It happened at Northwoods Park Middle School today when a teacher was told that a student had a gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">School administration said a school resource officer found the student in a classroom, searched their backpack, and seized the gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers say the student was detained, with nobody harmed or threatened. They emphasize that there is no ongoing threat to the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Jacksonville Police Department will not tell us whether the gun was loaded or not.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Jacksonville police are investigating after a handgun was found in a middle school student\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":773308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7614,71419,7310,103070,30022,68395,17878,519,316909,7207,15689,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,36907],"class_list":["post-773307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-gun","tag-handgun","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-police","tag-jacksonville-police-department","tag-middle-school","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-northwoods-park-middle-school","tag-police","tag-student","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116518166616403400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}