VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – A seventh-grade Virginia Beach student has been suspended from school for shooting an airsoft gun in his front yard while waiting for the school bus.

Khalid Caraballo, 13, was suspended for “possession, handling and use of a firearm.” He could face a year-long expulsion, reports WAVY.com.

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Two other students who fired the airsoft guns were also suspended.

A neighbor witnessed Khalid shooting the airsoft gun in his front yard and called 911. She told the dispatcher, “He is pointing the gun, and it looks like there’s a target in a tree in his front yard.”

The neighbor acknowledged the gun was not real, but told the dispatcher it made her feel uncomfortable.

Airsoft guns are non-lethal and use plastic pellets for ammunition.

Khalid and five other children were playing an airsoft gun war game as they waited for the bus. Incidentally, the 911 caller’s son was included in the group.

In a letter obtained by WAVY. com, Larkspur Middle School principal Matthew Delancy said his investigation found the “children were firing pellet guns at each other, and at people near the bus stop.” According to Delancy, one child “was only 10 feet from the bus stop, and ran from the shots being fired, but was still hit.”

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Khalid insists all the shots were fired on his private property.

“We see the bus come. We put the gun down. We did not take the airsoft gun to the bus stop. We did not take the gun to school,” Khalid told the news site.

Khalid’s mother, Solangel Caraballo, says the decision to suspend her son and his friends is ridiculous.

“My son is my private property. He does not become the school’s property until he goes to the bus stop, gets on the bus, and goes to school,” said Caraballo.

The school’s zero tolerance policy extends to private property, according the report.

Police have declined to press charges.

The Virginia Beach City Code states no person “shall…discharge any firearm, spring-propelled rifle or pistol…within…150 yards of any building, dwelling, street, (or) sidewalk.” It continues, “no person shall use a pneumatic gun except at approved shooting ranges or within private property.”

Virginia Beach Police Sergeant Adam Bernstein said his department does not proactively seek to enforce this code, but stresses these type of “pneumatic guns” should be handled responsibly.

“We understand that a number of juveniles possess airsoft guns and have airsoft gun wars with each other, but as it relates to the city code referenced above, they are in violation of the code if the juveniles are not exercising ‘reasonable care.’”

Khalid said he’s worried about the impact his punishment could have on his future.

“It’s terrible. I won’t get the chance to go to a good college. It’s on your school record. The school said I had possession of a firearm. They aren’t going to ask me any questions. They are going to think it was a real gun, and I was trying to hurt someone. They will say ‘oh, we can’t accept you.’”

Khalid and two other boys faced an expulsion hearing Monday to determine if they will be expelled for the remainder of the year.