BATON ROUGE – Parents of Belaire High School students united to discuss how to stop guns from entering schools after two incidents where a gun was found inside a student’s locker and a man had a rifle near the school.
An unloaded .45 pistol was found in a Belaire High School student’s locker late last month, according to an East Baton Rouge School Board member. Then deputies arrested a man for having a rifle near the school and firing it into the ground. For parents, enough was enough.
Storm Matthews is a teacher and has worked at Belaire High School for eight years. She says student safety is her priority…