Gunman disarmed at Pa. school

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man with a gun who entered a public school for performing arts students was arrested Wednesday afternoon after he fought with a security guard who confronted him and both men crashed through a large window near the school’s entrance.
A 23-year-old man was in custody shortly after he entered the Creative & Performing Arts school downtown with the gun, police said. Pittsburgh Public Schools spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said she wasn’t sure how he got inside because the school’s only two entrances have metal detectors.
Police had not immediately decided what charges the man would face.
The suspect tried to run away after a student spotted him with the gun in a restroom and alerted a security guard, Pugh said. The guard grabbed the suspect before he could run out of the school, and the two men scuffled before crashing through the front window, she said.
School police said the gun was not loaded when the security guard fought with the suspect. Pugh could not say if the man had been brandishing the gun or how the student had spotted it.
“(The suspect) mentioned he was there to meet a student, his relative,” Pugh said. “But we have no indication what the intention was with the weapon.”
The security guard was taken to a hospital with injuries he suffered from the broken glass. Pugh couldn’t detail the guard’s injuries but said they’re not believed to be serious.
The weapon was never fired and no students were hurt. The magnet school serves students in grades 6 through 12.
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