Seconds later, as students "hit the floor," the alleged shooter's parents arrived and disarmed the boy, according to Smith. 
 
 Other students told Smith that they saw the boy's father tackle him, while his mother took the gun away. 
 
 No one was injured. 
 
 Smith said girls in the class began to cry in the aftermath, but the boys didn't — although Smith admitted: "I wanted to cry." 
 
 Smith said that he knows the alleged shooter, has talked to him many times and that he has seemed "fine and normal," and that he has friends. 
 
 Bountiful Police Chief Tom Ross said the boy had a 12-gauge shotgun and a 9 mm handgun to school, as well as additional ammunition. 
 
 When his parents noticed the guns were missing from their home, they came to the school looking for their son, Ross said. 
 
 They were inside the school when they heard the gunshot, said Ross. 
 
 The parents then went to the south wing of the school where the shot was fired, and disarmed and detained the teen, Ross said. 
 
 Lt. Dave Edwards said that after the parents disarmed their son, the boy was subsequently arrested by a Bountiful police officer who happened to be nearby when he heard the 8:13 a.m. 911 call of an "active shooter," and arrived within two minutes. 
 
 Ross said at an afternoon news conference that the classroom was occupied by 26 students and a teacher. 
 
 Without saying anything, the teen "racked a round [into the shotgun] and fired into the ceiling," Ross said. 
 
 The boy then pointed the gun toward his neck, the chief said. 
 
 The teacher and a student tried to verbally engage the boy to prevent him from harming himself, Ross said, an effort that allowed the boy's parents to arrive in time to disarm him. ||||| A police officer escorts students down the street following a school lockdown at Mueller Park Junior High after a student fired a gun into the ceiling Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Bountiful, Utah. Police... (Associated Press) 
 
 A police officer escorts students down the street following a school lockdown at Mueller Park Junior High after a student fired a gun into the ceiling Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Bountiful, Utah. Police said two fast-acting Utah parents disarmed their son in the hallway of the Utah junior high school... (Associated Press) 
 
 BOUNTIFUL, Utah (AP) — Police said two fast-acting Utah parents disarmed their 15-year-old son at a Utah junior high school Thursday after the teenager brought the family's shotgun and handgun to school and fired a round into the ceiling of a classroom without injuring anyone. 
 
 Bountiful Police Chief Tom Ross said the boy's mother and father became concerned about their son Thursday morning. They went to Mueller Park Junior High in the northern Utah city of Bountiful when they noticed a handgun and shotgun were missing from their home. Ross said the parents confronted their son and disarmed him. 
 
 Student Dan Fowers, 15, told The Associated Press that the teenager came into a classroom minutes after class began and fired one round from a shotgun into the ceiling before a woman grabbed the gun from the boy and told him to stop. 
 
 Fowers said the woman threw the gun on the ground and pulled the boy back into a hallway. 
 
 "It was really scary," Fowers said. "The look on his face, it kind of looked like he wanted to do some damage." 
 
 He said students in the classroom dove under their desks, as they'd been taught during lockdown drills, with some screaming and crying. 
 
 Previously, police said the parents disarmed their son in a hallway. 
 
 Bountiful Police Lt. Dave Edwards confirmed the shooting inside the classroom but said he did not yet know enough to confirm other details from Fowers' account. 
 
 Police did not immediately release the teen's identity. Ross would only say that the student was a 15-year-old white male. He did not have details about the parents' specific concerns about their son, why the student brought the weapons to the school or what he intended. 
 
 Police had not been contacted before about the boy, Ross said. 
 
 As the parents intervened, a teacher called 911 and a police officer who happened to be down the street arrived and took custody of the student soon after, police said. 
 
 Davis School District spokesman Chris Williams had no immediate information about the student or whether the student had any history of trouble or incidents at the school. 
 
 Ross said the student was in custody Thursday but did not know if the student had been arrested on suspicion of any specific charges. 
 
 The school, about 11 miles north of Salt Lake City, remained on lockdown as more than 100 officers went room-by-room through the building to ensure it was safe. 
 
 Ross said no other student appears to have been involved. 
 
 Several hundred parents arrived and waited in the snow across the street from the school for word from police and administrators about when they could pick up their children. They later packed into a church across the street to sign up to take their children home. 
 
 School officials began allowing parents to take students home around 11 a.m. 
 
 Candy Beckstead said she was at a dentist's office when her sister called to tell her that there was something going on at her son's school. 
 
 She didn't hear from her 8th-grade son but rushed to the school. 
 
 "I freaked out and went into panic mode," she said. "Screaming, crying." 
 
 About 840 students in 7th, 8th and 9th grades attend the school, according to state data. Bountiful is a city with a predominantly Mormon population of about 44,000 people. 
 
 The incident comes about two weeks after another Utah student stabbed five high school classmates and himself before he was cornered by school workers, according to police. 
 
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 Price reported from Salt Lake City. Associated Press writer Lindsay Whitehurst in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.
– A Utah teenager who allegedly fired a shotgun into his school's ceiling Thursday morning was restrained and disarmed by his own parents, the AP reports. While police say the 15-year-old, who also had a handgun, discharged the shotgun in the hallway, at least two students say it happened inside a classroom during science class. Student Dan Fowers says the teen came in and fired the shotgun. "I looked up and there was a big hole in the ceiling," he tells KSL. Another student, Calvin Smith, tells the Salt Lake Tribune the shooter stood there looking angry for a moment before his parents burst in. Smith says the teen's dad tackled him while his mom took the gun away and dragged him into the hallway. Police confirm that the shooter was disarmed by his parents. The unnamed teen's parents were concerned about his behavior before school Thursday and headed for Meuller Park Junior High in Bountiful when they realized two family guns were missing. Police aren't giving the shooter's identity, why his parents were concerned about him, or what he had planned. Police say it's unclear if the teen meant to fire the shotgun or if it discharged accidentally. Fowers says the situation was "really scary." "The look on his face, it kind of looked like he wanted to do some damage," Fowers tells the AP. He says students dove under their desks, screaming and crying. Smith tells the Tribune he knows the shooter, who has always seemed "fine and normal."