LANSING Mich. (WLNS) – On the heels of two incidents involving weapons throughout the Lansing Faculty District prior to now week, the group is working to make change.
Police say a 17-year-old scholar was discovered with a gun exterior of Everett Excessive Faculty at round midday on Tuesday. The discovering got here after what the college known as a “hostile interaction with a family who was leaving the school.”
Police at Everett Excessive Faculty on Might 27, 2025. (WLNS)
Police arrested the teenager and charged him with carrying a hid weapon and having a gun in a weapons-free zone. Additionally they arrested 51-year-old Tameka Lengthy and charged her with assault with a harmful weapon, possession of a taser, and resisting and obstructing police.
On Wednesday, college choose up was a bit of extra tense for mother, Alexsandra Silva, after she heard what went down the day earlier than.
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“There’s a gun in our school, there’s fighting, there’s adults acting like children, that’s bonkers.” mentioned Silva.
Silva mentioned that gun violence within the Metropolis of Lansing is out of hand. She misplaced her nephew to it final 12 months.
“He will be forever 17,” mentioned Silva.
Michael Lynn with The Lansing Empowerment Community, a youth violence prevention group, is seeing the problem, too. 5 days earlier than the Everett incident, a gun was discovered at Dwight Wealthy, a Ok-8 college in Lansing.
“If we effect change in the community, then it won’t land in the schools,” mentioned Lynn.
Lynn mentioned he’s working with metropolis officers to chop gun violence off on the root.
“They’ll carry a gun to school instead of just not going to school where the problem might be at,” Lynn continued. “That means they want to be at school but don’t feel safe at the school.”
Lynn mentioned creating an atmosphere the place youngsters really feel protected and may thrive is essential, and that they’ve a staff engaged on that.
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Nevertheless, some mother and father aren’t proud of what they name the college district’s lack of communication in conditions like this.
“I didn’t get a call from the school, so I found out through social media,” mentioned Silva.
Lynn reassured individuals, although, that the district is actively working together with his community and the town.
“Digging those things apart afterwards, figuring out where we can be better. Okay we were good today, we want to be great tomorrow,” mentioned Lynn.
The youth advocate added that whereas there’s room to enhance, collaboration can remedy greater than pointing fingers.
“It’s a bigger issue that we need to be talking about, and if we don’t correct the narrative and think about it correctly, this is how we continue the cyclical nature of it all,” Lynn mentioned.
6 Information reached out to the Lansing Faculty District Wednesday for remark, however was instructed it has nothing additional to say aside from what it has instructed mother and father.
The Lansing Empowerment Community meets each Wednesday from midday to 1 PM and encourages mother and father to be part of the dialog.
