East Ridge Middle School Students Charged With Having Weapons on Campus

Two East Ridge Middle School students get charged with having weapons on campus.

Police tell us the school resource officers received information Friday morning that there was going to be a fight at the school.

Officers spent the day investigating and found two children with weapons.

One reportedly had a knife and the other brass knuckles.

Police say it appears to be gang related.

Both boys have been taken to the Juvenile detention center.

East Ridge Public Information Officer Erik Hopkins says officers managed to stop any possible violence planned at the school.

Erik Hopkins, "We were just responding to the potential of violence here and all that was quelled by fast response and good investigation skills."

The investigation delayed the dismissal of classes at the school.