Police were called Monday after teachers at Herzl School, 3711 W. Douglas Blvd., Chicago, discovered that a pupil had brought a bag of bullets to class.
Police said the 6th-grader told them that he found the bullets in an alley near the school. He did not have a gun or other weapon, police said.
“He was basically showing (the bullets) around,” said Officer Carol Mroczkowski of the Harrison Area Youth Division.
Police said no one was arrested and the child was sent home with his mother.
Last week, the mother of a 5-year-old boy who attends Herzl was charged with misdemeanor child neglect after her son was caught with a .380-caliber pistol he said he found at home.
The boy, who had brought the gun to school in his backpack, fired a shot into the floor of his kindergarten classroom. No one was injured.
