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A ..22 caliber handgun, its magazine and a flare gun seized by police from the backpack of Tyler Farley, 7, at Wave Preparatory School in Far Rockaway yesterday.
The mother of a second-grade Queens pupil who showed up with a semiautomatic handgun has been arrested, police said this morning.
Deborah Farley, 53, was arrested and charged late last night with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, and one count each of endangering the welfare of a child and unlawful possession of a weapon, police said.
Farley is in police custody and will be arraigned later today, police said.
Farley brought her 7-year-old son Tyler to Wave Preparatory School in Far Rockaway at about 7:30 a.m. — and when the mom returned home, someone in the house told her the child may have gone to school with a gun stashed in his backpack, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Farley raced back and signed Tyler out, allegedly claiming she had to take him to the dentist, sources said.
She searched the backpack and asked the boy whether he had seen the gun, sources added.
Tyler said he gave the gun to another boy, and then he went with his mother at 10:10 a.m. to tell the principal what had happened, sources said.
The school, which has held safety drills since the Newtown massacre, went into lockdown.
A flare gun was found in the second youngster's backpack, police said.
"I was crying. I was scared. I was hiding under the table for so long I couldn't feel my legs," said student Eneisha Perez, 9.
Adults did a thorough search of Tyler's backpack and found a .22-caliber pistol, a magazine with 10 rounds and at least seven more bullets in a plastic bag, sources said.
The magazine was not in the gun, but it was not immediately clear whether the pistol was loaded with a round in the chamber, sources added.
The gun was confiscated by school safety agents.
Detectives are investigating if one of Tyler's older brothers put the gun in the bag, thinking he wouldn't go to school because of the bus strike; or if Tyler found it and put it in the backpack himself, sources said.
Both of the boy's brothers, who are in their 20s, are known to the police, and one had been a shooting victim, sources said.
Cops are seeking a search warrant to look through their home. There were no licensed gun owners at the home, police said.
Upon dismissal, parents were handed a sheet of paper informing them about the school being locked down, but there was no information given to them about the gun incident.
Additional reporting by Kirstan Conley and Lorena Mongelli
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