A student discharged a gun that was mounted on a police motorcycle at Newman Elementary School in Chino, California on Wednesday.
The number of injured students was upped to three after initial reports indicated two.
“The rifle was … secured in the mount on the motorcycle during the incident,” Tamrin Olden, crime prevention supervisor for the Chino Police Department, said at an evening news conference, according to the LA Times. “The child did approach the mounted rifle.”
The “accidental discharge” happened at about 11:15 a.m., police said. The rifle was an AR-15.
Officers were on the campus for a Red Ribbon Week event, which encourages children and teens not to use drugs.
Two of the students were taken to a hospital, while the other was picked up by his or her parents. They all had minor, non-life threatening injuries.
The school referred questions to the police.
The police department and the Chino Valley Unified School District are investigating what happened, because “there are several fail-safes in place” to in most cases prevent a discharge, said Olden.
