A 14-year-old student was found with a gun during the first day of the school year Tuesday at a St. Paul high school, according to police.

Police were called to Johnson Senior High School on Arcade Street at 9:30 a.m.

The school received a tip that a student may have brought a weapon to school, Principal Jamil Payton wrote in an email sent to parents Tuesday.

“During a staff search conducted by one of our assistant principals, interventionist, and school support liaison (SSL), a gun was found,” he wrote. “No one was injured.”

Police responded to the school, and found staff had the teen and the firearm secured, said Alyssa Arcand, a St. Paul police spokeswoman. The handgun was unloaded when police recovered it.

Officers booked the teen into the Ramsey County Juvenile Detention Center.

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