11 Year Old Brings Gun in Backpack Encouraged by Parents

11-year-old brought gun to school - says  parents encouraged him

A 11-year-old from the state of Utah in the United States were on Monday taken with a handgun in the backpack. According to reports, the boy having been encouraged by their parents to bring the weapon to school after a shooting last week.

The boy, who attends a school in a suburb of Salt Lake City, will have drawn the unloaded weapon by schoolbag during a break Monday, reports Fox News .

Displayed weapon until classmates

He should have shown up the .22-calibers gun to his classmates and teachers at the school were first notified of the handgun later that day.

The school has, however, stated that the boy was taken care of "within 30 to 45 seconds" when they were first alerted to what he brought.

According to reports by school boy must have been encouraged by their parents to bring the gun to school, after the fatal shooting incident in Connecticut Friday of last week. He believed that he had the weapon in the school bag to protect themselves.

The situation was quickly resolved

Some parents have responded that the school did not do enough when the weapon was discovered.

- The school was not closed off, none were called and nothing was done. Also, we hear about this through our children, says John Klaus to Fox News.

The administration at the school said the situation was resolved so quickly that they did not see it necessary to close off the area. They would not make more out of it, not to intimidate students.

Police are now investigating the role of the boy's parents have been in the episode. The boy is taken to a juvenile detention center, and can be prosecuted. He can also be expelled from school, writes Fox News.

28 killed in Connecticut

At the same time Monday, the first victims of the shooting in Connecticut buried.

Read more: The first babies buried

20 year old Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 young children and six adults at the school after killing his own mother. Lanza also took his own life Friday.