CHURCH HILL, Tenn. - The mother of a kindergartner was charged with assault Thursday and banned from school after officials said she walked into the child’s classroom, pointed a toy cap gun at students and pulled the trigger several times.

It happened Tuesday, a day after the deadly shootings at Virginia Tech, and scared teachers and students, the school principal said.

Church Hill police and Hawkins County school officials met with Heather Nicole Berg, 26, before charging her with misdemeanor assault, police said. She had already been banned from Church Hill Elementary School for a year.

Police declined to say why Berg had the cap gun with her but called her actions “a monumental lapse in judgment.”

jay: why’d she bring a cap gun to a kindergarten class the day after the virginia tech shootings? my theory: she’s a comedy genius. and the small-minded fools in tiny town, usa just can’t take a joke.

dan: that’s gold, jerry. gold! these people have no respect for prop comedy.

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