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Texas mom pulls gun on 7th-grade students, police say

SAN ANTONIO – A woman believed to be the mother of a Texas seventh-grade volleyball player pulled a gun on a rival team celebrating a lopsided win over her daughter’s outmatched squad, officials said Friday.

Girls on the Kirby Middle School volleyball team fled when the woman confronted them with a gun Thursday night in the parking lot and threatened to shoot, Judson school district spokesman James Keith said. No shots were fired and no one was injured.

Authorities believe the woman is the mother of a player from Metzger Middle School, which had just been beaten soundly.

No arrests had been made as of early Friday. Keith said the school district believed they had identified the woman.

“She was irate during the game,” Keith said. “My understanding, according to the principal, is that the Metzger team lost pretty bad. They were getting hit with balls during the game and were just outmatched.”

Keith said girls on the Kirby team had left the gym and were walking to their bus after the game, laughing and celebrating, when the woman approached and threatened to kill one or more of them.

The woman took off in a maroon-colored car, and school police reviewed surveillance tape to try and identify her. At least six witnesses saw the incident, Keith said.

The Judson school district is in northeast San Antonio.