Police in South Texas shot and killed a 15-year-old boy who brought a pellet gun, which looked like a real handgun, to his middle school, according to local reports.Cops in Brownsville rushed to Cummings Junior High School about 8 a.m. Wednesday after receiving reports that a student had a weapon, the Brownsville Herald reported.
Officers confronted the armed eighth-grader in a hallway and shot him, authorities said.
The boy was taken to Valley Baptist Medical Center, where he died, a county justice of the peace told the local paper.
His name was not immediately released.
The school was placed on lockdown, and students were being relocated to a nearby high school, the Herald said.
No other injuries were reported.
Investigators haven't determined whether the boy fired his weapon, Brownsville police Detective J.J. Trevino told The Associated Press.
"It's still under investigation, as far as how he came about to bringing the weapon or if he encountered anybody or anything else," Trevino said.
Brownsville is 280 miles south of San Antonio.
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