Police Praise Parents, Who Disarmed their son after he took two guns to school, For Thinking Fast Enough..

The parents of a teenager who took two guns to school are being praised by police after their quick thinking prevented a potential shooting.

On Thursday morning they became concerned about their son, 15, after noticing a handgun and shotgun were missing from their home in Utah, USA.

The mother and father drove to Mueller Park Junior High and confronted him, but only after he had fired a round into the ceiling of a classroom without injuring anyone.

One witness said students dove under their desks after the shot was fired and that a woman, seemingly the boy's mother, grabbed the gun from the boy and told him to stop. Police are still trying to establish why the student brought the weapons to school and whether the gun was fired intentionally.

Bountiful Police Chief Tom Ross said,  "I'm extremely grateful for the parents for their involvement and the fact that this ended without any loss of life."

The school, near Salt Lake City, was closed for the remainder of the day while more than 100 officers searched the building to ensure it was safe. The teenager has been taken into custody for questioning.