Three gun-related incidents at Klein Independent School District campuses in a single week have left parents demanding answers and the district scrambling to shore up security as Spring Break gets underway.
The first incident happened on Monday, March 10, when a student at Klein Collins High School brought a firearm to campus and discharged it while alone in a restroom. No one was injured. According to the district, the student was detained, arrested, expelled, and now faces felony charges.
The second incident occurred the following day at Zwink Elementary School in Spring, where a man dressed in what appeared to be a uniform and carrying a holstered firearm entered the front office after slipping through the front entrance during a roughly 15-second window when the door failed to latch after another visitor exited. School staff immediately engaged the individual and asked for identification. He did not provide it. Staff then contacted the campus armed guard and the man left the building without incident. He never accessed any hallway or came near students.
The man was later identified as 39-year-old Kyle Najm Chris, also known as Muhi Mohanad Najm, a Klein-area resident. Court records show he holds a Texas Concealed Handgun License and a private investigator license, but he had no affiliation with Klein ISD or Zwink Elementary. He told police he was a security guard, though investigators determined he was unemployed and held no peace officer certification. He was arrested at his home that Wednesday evening and charged with a third-degree felony for unlawfully carrying a weapon in a prohibited place. His bond was set at $75,000. Chris has since posted that bond and was released from custody Sunday, according to court records reviewed by the Daily Wire. He is now under 24-hour house arrest with a GPS ankle monitor and is banned from going near any Klein ISD property. His next court date is May 12.
Klein ISD waited more than 24 hours to notify parents about the Zwink incident. The district said the delay was a coordinated tactical decision made in partnership with the FBI and the Texas Department of Public Safety to keep the suspect under surveillance while working toward an arrest without tipping him off. The incident drew national attention when Libs of TikTok posted about it on X, noting that the man had entered an elementary school through an unsecured door.
Some parents, however, had already flagged the vulnerability before it became a crisis. One parent even said they had warned the district about the entry system at Zwink Elementary as far back as November and said nothing was done.
The third incident happened Friday, March 14, at Klein High School, when a student brought an unloaded handgun to campus and showed it to other students. Fellow students reported the weapon, the student was detained, and the district says the student has since been expelled with felony charges being pursued.
By Tuesday evening, a group calling itself the Klein ISD Parent Safety Coalition had organized a meeting at the Memorial Northwest Community Center in Spring to gather signatures on a petition demanding changes from the district. Parent Miranda Redd described the experience of her daughter Emma, who was near the restroom at Klein Collins when the shot went off: “You hear that a gun goes off and you’re like okay and then you hear yeah I was right next to it and that kind of stops you in your tracks and makes you reconsider everything.” Redd also said she wasn’t notified until four hours after the incident because students aren’t allowed to have phones on campus.
The petition calls for metal detector screenings at secondary schools, tighter campus entry controls, and real-time parent notification within 30 minutes of any weapon-related incident or unauthorized campus entry.
Klein ISD has since announced a set of additional security measures set to go into effect March 23 when students return from Spring Break. Those include expanded police presence on all campuses in partnership with additional law enforcement agencies, expanded random metal detector screenings on an unannounced rotating schedule, and increased random K-9 searches across district campuses. In a joint letter to families, Superintendent Dr. Jenny McGown and Klein ISD Police Chief Marlon Runnels also urged parents to secure firearms at home and talk to their children about the consequences of bringing weapons to school.
The events represent the latest in a string of safety-related controversies for the district. Texas Scorecard has previously reported on a Klein ISD substitute teacher charged with displaying pornography to students, a nurse terminated and placed under criminal investigation after replacing students’ prescription medications with over-the-counter drugs, and multiple teacher arrests for sex crimes involving students, including a Klein Cain High School cosmetology teacher who was charged with six counts of human trafficking.
