A third-grade classroom was evacuated Monday at a Fredericksburg elementary school after a gun went off unexpectedly from inside a student's backpack. Officers from the Spotsylvania Sheriff's ...

A Charles County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said the incident happened just before 10:30 a.m. at Billingsley Elementary School ... grader reached into his backpack and accidentally triggered ...

No students or staffers were injured early Monday when a handgun fired inside a third grade student’s backpack at an elementary school in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, according to law enforcement.