“There’s a guy in front of our elementary school sleeping,” the caller told a dispatcher. “He’s sleeping, but I can see a gun.”
The caller said the man, later identified as 22-year-old Michael Osburn, was crouched in the fetal position by Ruskin Elementary School’s front entrance. A gun was reportedly laying behind him.
The caller also noted a bike near Osburn.
“He must have been here all night,” the caller said.
Police later determined that the firearm was a BB gun.
INITIAL REPORT:
A 22-year-old man with a BB gun and knife at a Dayton elementary school was taken into custody Thursday morning.
Officers were dispatched to Ruskin Elementary School around 6 a.m. on a suspicious person complaint, according to a police report.
Michael B. Osburn was arrested on suspicion of carrying concealed weapons, illegal weapons/ordnances on school property and possession of drugs.
No formal charges have been filed.
Osburn had a BB gun that was “indistinguishable from a firearm,” according to the report, as well as a knife and drugs.
It was not clear whether Osburn was inside or outside the school when he was arrested.
We’ll continue to update this story as more information becomes available.
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