Radio traffic: Cops thought Texas student had gun

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Police radio traffic indicates that officers believed an eighth-grader was  brandishing a handgun before he was fatally shot inside his South Texas middle school.

Brownsville police say they later determined that 15-year-old Jaime (HY'-may) Gonzalez had a pellet gun Wednesday inside Cummings Middle School. No one else was injured.

A nearly five-minute recording of radio conversations before, during and after the shootings was obtained by KGBT-TV. Early in the recording, an officer says he can see the teen through the school's front door and that he was "holding a handgun, black in color."

Two minutes later, someone yells "shots fired." A couple minutes later, someone asks where the boy was shot, prompting the responses that he was hit in the chest and suffered a "head wound in the back."