Dec. 06--Two teenage boys were charged as adults Saturday with taking an unloaded gun into a high school in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood.
Deldeandraa McKinnon, 16, and Thornton Greene, 15, both students at Harlan Community Academy High School, were charged with carrying a weapon within 1,000 feet of a school and possession of a controlled substance, according to court records. The gun was brought to the school, 9652 S. Michigan Ave., Friday morning.
On Friday, representatives of Chicago Public Schools failed to respond to repeated requests for information about the incident.
Greene also was charged with reckless conduct, while McKinnon was charged with theft of lost or mislaid property worth less than $500, according to court records. He was allegedly found carrying someone else's Social Security card.
School security on Friday saw McKinnon drop a metal object into a school garbage can after Greene opened a restricted door to let McKinnon in and bypass metal detectors, according to court records.
The object turned out to be an unloaded blue steel model 922 H .22-caliber revolver.
The boys were detained and searched, and each was found to be carrying four round, white pills that appeared to be codeine, according to court records.
McKinnon also was carrying a Social Security card that did not belong to him, according to records.
McKinnon lives on the 1010 block of East 93rd Street, according to court records. Greene lives on the 9100 block of South Ellis Avenue.
Both boys were ordered held in lieu of $150,000 bail by Judge Peggy Chiampas.
