NEW YORK-
A New York City man who gave his girlfriend’s 14-year-old son a gun was arrested after the boy’s seven-year-old brother brought it to school.
Authorities said 23-year-old Shamble Miller was arrested on charges of reckless endangerment, acting in a manner injurious to a child and criminal possession of a weapon.
The telephone rang busy at Miller’s Brooklyn address this morning, and police did not know whether he was represented by a lawyer.
Police said the boys’ mother, 35-year-old Andrea Clark, said Miller gave her teenage son the .38-caliber revolver “for protection at school.” She told her boyfriend to get the gun out of her house, but her son kept it and tried hiding it under a mattress.
The younger boy, a second-grader, found the unloaded gun and took it to Public School 63 in Queens on Thursday, terrifying schoolmates by playing show-and-tell with the weapon. A teacher confiscated the revolver after another student told her about it.
Clark, a city traffic enforcement agent, was arraigned yesterday on charges of reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child. She was ordered held on $15,000 bail. Her lawyer did not respond to a telephone message Friday.
The older boy also was arrested and charged as a juvenile in a family court case.
The seven-year-old has not been arrested or charged in the case.
