“An engineering student at Saint Louis University did too well on a class assignment to build a toy gun, creating a model so realistic that it prompted a campus-wide lockdown and hunt for a possible shooting suspect.”
If you’re black, you don’t even need a realistic model. A glue gun is enough.
With helpful photo of two guns that have nothing to do with the story. At first I was thinking, “Dang, those kids did really good work” and then I realized that the AP is just stupid and can’t be arsed to get a relevant picture.