Del Valle High School administrators stopped armed student from entering campus Tuesday

Del Valle school administrators stopped a student with a handgun at the front doors of the high school Tuesday morning before classes started, district spokesman Christopher Weddle said.

The student didn't enter the school and the gun wasn't fired, Weddle said. Administrators learned of the armed student after receiving a tip from another student, he said.

"The student did what they should have done," Weddle said. "They heard about something and they did something."

The district wouldn't share specific information about disciplinary action taken against the armed student, but Weddle said administrators planned to follow district procedures.

"Anything like this causes concern with parents," Weddle said. "As we saw today, our administration reacts quickly when we get information."

Weddle noted that he understood many parents have been left with heightened anxiety after districts across Texas and the country fielded a spate of false threats last week that caused some campuses to go on lockdown.

Several Austin-area districts also fielded false threats. Two students in the Hays school district were charged last week with making a false alarm or report, and another student was charged with terroristic threat. In Austin, a man was arrested Sept. 11 for terroristic threat after a threat was made to Hill Elementary School in Northwest Austin.

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