A weapons complaint was taken late Saturday morning involving an incident that happened about 9:30 p.m. Aug. 25 at the stadium, according to a heavily redacted police incident report.
That report lists a Glock 18C, but the weapon brought to the game was a pellet gun, Kettering Officer Tyler Johnson told the Dayton Daily News on Thursday.
Kettering schools Superintendent Mindy McCarty-Stewart and Fairmont Principal Karyn Denslow addressed the issue in a letter Wednesday afternoon.
“The district administration met with law enforcement and are currently assessing the current security protocols in place” for home football games, the letter to families and staff said.
It also stated that, “we are diligently examining ways to enhance security measures before we host our next football game on Sept. 8″ against Northmont.
Fairmont is scheduled to play at La Salle High School in Cincinnati this Friday night.
The suspect who brought the pellet gun to the game entered after halftime, when schools commonly do not charge for admission, according to the district’s letter and police records.
The specific charges the student may face were not clear Thursday afternoon. More than three pages of the police report were redacted, and the school district did not respond to an inquiry about the issue.
Late Saturday morning, Denslow and Fairmont unit principals discussed a statement from a 17-year-old witness who was at the game, documents show.
The witness said she saw the suspect lift his shirt “and showed the gun that was in his waistband,” according to the police report.
The witness told an adult, who unsuccessfully tried to confront the suspect as he fled, the report states.
Later Saturday morning, an officer was sent to get a statement from the witness, who “did not say anything about seeing a gun.”
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