Lakewood Kindergartner Suspended Over Gun Threat

Officials have suspended a New Jersey kindergarten student after they said he threatened to bring a gun to class.

Police were called to Lakewood's Spruce Street School on Tuesday afternoon.

School Superintendent Laura Winters tells the Asbury Park Press the five-year-old boy received a two-day suspension. She declined to provide more information about the threat or the student.

Winters says this was the first time such an incident has happened with a kindergarten student.

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