YOUNGSTOWN — A Youngstown police report released Monday provides additional details of the Friday morning incident involving an eighth-grade student at Chaney Middle School on South Schenley Avenue on the West Side who was found to have a handgun in his “Looney Tunes” backpack.

The report states that Deputy Steven Shreffler was working security at 9:39 a.m., observed the student entering the building and directed him to walk through the metal detector.

It “indicated a metal object within the student’s backpack,” the report states. “The deputy visually inspected the backpack, revealing no metal objects,” the report states.

The deputy noticed that the empty backpack, which was printed with Bugs Bunny on it, was “heavy, and the deputy could feel the outline of a possible handgun concealed in a hidden compartment,” the report states.

The student “became confrontational with the deputy and attempted to take possession of the book bag,” it continues. But the school administrator, Glen Matlock, assisted the deputy as the deputy placed the student into handcuffs and “escorted him into the principal’s office pending further investigation.”

The deputy then removed a Glock handgun loaded with a magazine containing 16 rounds of ammunition, which was concealed in the hidden compartment of the backpack, the report states.

Another deputy unloaded the weapon and saw that there was no bullet in the chamber of the gun. The student was placed under arrest for conveyance of a deadly weapon on school premises and carrying a concealed weapon, the report states.

The student said the gun belongs to his father “and that he took the weapon for protection due to threats he received from (a student) who made threats to kill (blacked out) over a dispute the two had involving a girl,” the report states.

The student was transported to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center. An emailed statement from Youngstown City Schools later Friday stated that the student passed through a metal detector with a gun in his possession.

Youngstown police Capt. Jason Simon confirmed the episode occurred just before 10 a.m., and said the student was an eighth-grader who “thought he needed to protect himself.” Simon stated that the weapon was a semi-automatic handgun.

The school’s resource officer “swiftly enacted safety protocols,” and the student was removed from the front entrance of the school, the school district release states. Then, emergency plan operations were carried out with law enforcement.

The weapon was not discharged, the release states.

“We are grateful to law enforcement for their prompt response and will continue to work with them during this investigation,” the school district press release states.

Simon stated that although there was a quick response and the district’s emergency plan was effective, it shows how much work still needs to be done in society to make sure these types of situations don’t happen in the future.