Police take teenager with pellet gun at elementary school into custody



BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Police say they have taken a 13-year-old boy with a pellet gun at an elementary school into custody.

The Skagit Valley Herald reports (http://goo.gl/Z0A8yc ) that Burlington police received a report Wednesday morning of a student entering a restroom at Lucille Umbarger Elementary School with a weapon.

The school was locked down for about 15 minutes while officers responded to the report.

Police said they located the boy, who had a pellet gun, and took him into custody. They say he is a student at the school.

No one was injured in the incident and police are investigating.