Loaded gun found inside book bag at Brooklyn High School

BROOKLYN - School safety agents found a loaded gun in a student's book bag at a high school in Brooklyn on Thursday.

Officials say it was in the book bag of a 17-year-old student at the George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School.

They discovered the loaded automatic gun when an x-ray machine was scanning the bag.

A person of interest was taken into custody.

No injuries were reported.