Florida City High School Student Arrested with Semi-Automatic in Class

Since last week, when a Coral Gables Senior High student fatally stabbed a classmate, cops have found at least eight weapons on Miami-Dade students. Apparently, its not uncommon for more kids to come to classes armed after an incident of school violence. Maybe it's peer pressure. Maybe it's some notion...

By Gus Garcia-Roberts

September 24, 2009

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Since last week, when a Coral Gables Senior High student fatally stabbed a classmate, cops have found at least eight weapons on Miami-Dade students. Apparently, its not uncommon for more kids to come to classes armed after an incident of school violence. Maybe it's peer pressure. Maybe it's some notion of self-defense.

Either way, add Miami Douglas Macarthur South High student Barrian Moore to the list. At 7:45 this morning, Miami-Dade detectives came to the school to arrest the 17-year-old on an outstanding warrant. The charges for that warrant haven't been revealed because he was prosecuted as a juvenile.

The school's security chief yanked Moore from class, and when the cops arrested him they found a bag of weed and a semi-automatic handgun on person. If you're curious, it was a .25 mm Raven, silver in color with a brown grip. Raven is a manufacturer of cheap guns that have a tendency to show up at crime scenes.

Moore told the cops that the "gun was his and he bought it from someone in the streets", according to a police report. He added that he "tested it when he bought it."

A look at the Florida City kid's MySpace page -- he goes by "B-Moe", probably because the name Barrian doesn't exactly drip with cool -- yields no surprises. One photo shows him with a wad of dollars in his mouth. The next shows him biting a pair of new white sneakers. Alas, none depict him chomping into a textbook.

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