MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio – An Ohio mother faces several criminal charges after police allege she pulled a gun in a school parking lot earlier this month.

“On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 6th an allegation was made that a parent had a weapon in her car at dismissal at Milkovich Middle School,” Maple Heights City Schools Superintendent Charlie Keenan wrote in a prepared statement to Cleveland’s News 5. “Due to the seriousness of this allegation, our administration immediately notified the Maple Heights Police Department who began an investigation.”

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Police charged Mary Thomas with inducing panic, inciting to violence, aggravated menacing, contributing the delinquency or unruliness of a child, and falsification, WJW reports.

Witnesses allege Thomas’ 12-year-old daughter got into a fight with another female student, and Thomas brought the gun with her to school the next day. A video posted online also appeared to show the daughter with a gun, and voices that said “hole in the face” and “I ain’t playing no games.”

“They seen her reaching into her purse. She pulled it out. And they’re like, ‘She got a gun, she got a gun,’” the mother of a child who witnessed the incident told WJW.”

“She pulled it out of her purse and started cocking it,” another parent said. “She started cocking it back like she was intentionally going to use it.”

“It was on school grounds, so why would you bring a gun for kids stuff,” one of the parents said. “You’re showing your daughter it’s okay to have a gun and be involved with violence.”

Maple Heights Police noted that Thomas has a permit to carry a gun, and she was attacked with mace during the recent incident at Milkovich Middle School.

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“The older sister of another girl said she pulled out the mace after Thomas showed the gun,” WJW reports.

Regardless, Keenan wrote that Thomas was banned from school property until her criminal case is resolved.

“The parent was notified the same afternoon by the school administration, the director of security and the police department that she is not permitted on school property until this situation is fully investigated and resolved,” the superintendent wrote. “We have worked with MHPD to provide all evidence related to this situation and as of now the incident is still an active case with the MHPD.”

A WJW reporter went to Thomas’ home for comment about the altercation, but nobody would answer the door.

Someone inside, however, shouted “There wasn’t no gun at the school.”