On Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 1:45 pm, a Fairfield Police School Resource Officer received information about a student in class with a gun at the Sem Yeto High School. (Sem Yeto is a separate school, but is located on the Fairfield High School campus.)
School Resource Officers Paula Gulian and Adrienne Quinn coordinated with site administrators to safely remove the student from the class he was in and detained him. When Officers searched the student, they located an unloaded semi-automatic pistol in his waistband, and a loaded pistol magazine in his pocket. The student was arrested and booked into Juvenile Hall for possession of a firearm on school grounds and possession of a concealed firearm. Since he is a juvenile, his identity is being withheld.
The firearm had not previously been reported stolen and officers are attempting to contact the person the gun was registered to. It was not registered locally.
The Fairfield Police Department assigns Police Officers at each of the high schools in Fairfield with the chief responsibility to protect the safety of students, staff, and visitors. They also interact with students in positive ways every single day. Events like this don’t happen very often on school campuses, but when they do the important partnership between the Police Department and the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District and its schools ensures a quick response to keep kids safe.
The Fairfield Police Department urges anyone that sees suspicious activity anywhere, to report it. This is especially true in a school environment. The removal of a gun from a school environment may have saved lives today.
People that report illegal firearms possession on school grounds may be eligible for a $200 cash reward.
Tipsters must have personal knowledge that the weapon is illegally possessed, provide sufficient information for officers to be able to identify the person with it, their whereabouts, and how they know the person is actually in possession of it.
Tips about possession of weapons on school grounds or other crimes may be made by calling 911, by notifying school staff or the School Resource Officer, or by calling “Crimestoppers” at (707) 644-STOP. Tips about weapons may be made confidentially and are still eligible for the reward, as long as the Police Department can obtain enough information to confidentially contact the tipster at a later time.
You can also Text-A-Tip by sending TIP FAIRFIELDPD followed by your message to 888777.
