A student at Johnson Senior High School in St. Paul was arrested on Tuesday after bringing a gun to school. No one was injured.

Shortly after the start of classes, an assistant principal, interventionist and school support liaison conducted a weapons search on a boy in the school, after receiving a tip. They found the gun and confiscated it. Officers from the St. Paul Police Department responded to a 9:30 a.m. call from the school, arrived shortly afterward and made the arrest.

“I understand this news can be extremely upsetting, especially on the first day of school. At the same time, I want to call out that our safety protocols worked as intended,” Johnson principal Jamil Payton wrote in an email to families late Tuesday.

Other students in the high school building were put into a “secu

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