Sheriff’s deputies determined Tuesday afternoon that the weapon a 17-year-old student brought to the Skyview High School parking lot last week was a pellet gun that did not appear to be functional.
Deputy Jon Shields, student resource officer at Skyview, searched the student’s car on Tuesday afternoon. Shields said in an email the gun was made in China and had no magazine.
Sgt. Shane Gardner said the gun appeared to be real when viewed from outside the locked vehicle. Even after performing the search, it strongly resembled a real gun, he said.
“It looks exactly like a Glock,” Gardner said Wednesday afternoon. “There’s a couple small differences, but for all intents and purposes, it looks like a Glock.”