A 17-year-old accused of shooting a fellow Magruder High School student was charged as an adult with attempted second-murder as the victim’s listed condition worsened to critical, Montgomery County police officials said Saturday.
The suspect, Steven Alston Jr., was being held without bond and is expected to appear in court Monday. Police believe he was armed with a “ghost gun,” a weapon assembled from different parts. The proliferation of such guns, which are untraceable, has alarmed police and prosecutors around the country...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/22/magruder-high-shooting-ghost-gun-student-charged/
“Unless we address, intelligently, ghost guns, all the prior legislation that we’ve passed to regulate guns in our community really becomes meaningless,” said Montgomery State’s Attorney John McCarthy (D). “Effectively banning ghost guns is the only real way to do this.”
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