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US 8-year-old sells loaded gun in school for $3

(Agencies)
Updated: 2011-04-29 22:31

NEW YORK - Police say an 8-year-old boy sold his father's loaded gun to a fellow third-grader for $3 at their New York City school.

An alarmed mother told officials that her child brought the pistol home from Public School 107 in the Flushing section of Queens on Thursday, the New York Daily News reported.

The young seller and his father were taken into police custody.