A pistol-packing 7-year-old Queens boy did the showing, his classmate did the telling, and his NYPD meter-maid mom and brother could do the paying.
Second-grader Christopher Clarke was hauled out of PS 63 in Ozone Park by cops yesterday after he was caught by his teacher toting an unloaded .38-caliber pistol, police and education officials said.
The boy had apparently shown the handgun to several classmates before stuffing it in his pocket prior to being confronted by his teacher.
“The teacher went up to the child and asked, ‘What’s in your pockets?’ Sure enough, one of the things in his pocket was a gun,” said Department of Education spokeswoman Dina Paul Parks.
The boy handed the gun to his teacher, who called 911, Parks said.
Christopher and his mother, Andrea Clarke, were later taken for questioning to the 106th Precinct station house, where sources said it was determined that the gun had been in the possession of his 14-year-old brother and that their mother allegedly was aware he had the pistol.
Clarke told cops the gun belonged to her boyfriend, sources said.
Clarke, a 35-year-old NYPD traffic-enforcement agent, and her older son, whose name was not released, were both hit with endangerment charges.
The mother, whose birthday was yesterday, was led from the station house by cops.
The woman, wearing a T-shirt with the word “Princess” emblazoned across it, ignored questions from reporters.
Her sons were released into their grandmother’s custody.
Parks, the schools spokeswoman, said the department was cooperating with the police investigation and Christopher would likely face “serious disciplinary action.”
The DOE’s discipline code calls for a one-year suspension for any student caught with a gun at school.
At the family’s former home in Ozone Park, landlord Rani Ramnato said Clarke was a good mom – and a bad tenant. Ramnato said she had to evict the family because Clarke “wasn’t paying the rent.”
“They damaged my apartment,” she said, “but she was a nice person.”
Additional reporting by Perry Chiaramonte and Mark Bulliet