Police: 4 teens arrested at high school; 1 with gun

BOSTON -- Police said they arrested four teenagers at the English High School in Jamaica Plain Thursday morning.

The four teenagers arrived on the school's property just after 9 a.m. and started an altercation with others.

While officers attempted to disperse the group, they noticed one of the teens reaching for a schoolbag.

Inside, police found a loaded firearm.

Officers arrested Walter West, 17, of Dorchester, and charged him with unlawful possession of a firearm on school property, unlawful possession of ammunition, resisting arrest and trespassing.

Police said several other teenagers involved in the disturbance fled the property.

Officers soon caught up with each of the individuals and charged them all with trespassing and disturbing a public assembly.

Damien Oliver, 17, of Dorchester, Tyrone Rutledge, 17, of Dorchester and two other juveniles, ages 13 and 16, were arrested. They are all expected to be arraigned on Friday.

No injuries were reported.

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