Just days after an Aug. 20 incident in which a 15-year old was charged with bringing a gun onto the Mullins High School campus, the teen was released back in the custody of family members in Horry County.
According to WBTW-TV 13, 12th Circuit Solicitor Ed Clements said the teen appeared before a judge Monday in Marion County.
Clements said the judge ordered for the teen to undergo an evaluation, ordered that the teen stay out of Marion County, and also ordered the teen to have a curfew.
Clements said a violation of the order would result in the teen would being sent back to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
The teen’s arrest, came after deputies locked down all Mullins schools — McCormick Elementary, Mullins Early Childhood Center, Mullins High, North Mullins Primary and Palmetto Middle — to search for him.
The search began after a group of girls at Mullins High reported seeing a young man with a pistol in his pants, Marion County Sheriff Mark Richardson said.
Officials said the teen was either dropping off or picking up a student at the school when he showed a gun to another student. Richardson said the teen never entered Mullins High.
When found, the boy told officers he’d only had a toy gun, but deputies found a silver revolver in his possession.
The gun wasn’t loaded when deputies found it, but investigators said they have reason to believe it had been loaded earlier.
The teen was charged with disturbing schools and possessing a firearm on school property.
He was eventually located at a home on East Lowman street in Mullins.
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