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In the Matter of V.P.

Questioning by a school official seeking information in furtherance of his duty to protect the safety and well-being of students and faculty at the school does not amount to custodial interrogation.

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Released for publication October 4, 2001. Tex. R. App. P. 47.3(c).

On February 16, 2000, appellant V.P., then fourteen years old, hid a gun in a friend’s backpack during the bus ride to his middle school. When they arrived at school, he retrieved the gun and asked M.M. to hold it for him. The friend in whose backpack the gun was hidden approached Lance Cox, the Austin Independent School District Police Officer assigned to the school, and told Cox that V.P. had a gun on campus. Cox and Ira Williams, the school’s hall monitor, excused V.P. from his class and brought him to speak to Vince Trevino, an assistant principal. V.P. eventually told Trevino where the gun was, and Cox arrested him. V.P. was adjudicated delinquent for the offense of bringing a weapon into a prohibited place and was placed on probation for fourteen months, to be served at a treatment facility in Corsicana. Tex. Penal Code Ann. � 46.03(a)(1) (West Supp. 2001). He appeals in two points of error, arguing the district court erred in refusing to suppress his oral confession and the gun. We will affirm.

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