The suspect, who is also 16 and lives in Rockville, will be charged as an adult, officials in Montgomery County said.
The victim, who police say is from Gaithersburg, was taken to a hospital in stable condition. The students’ names were not released. Both are students at Wootton.
The school campus was placed on lockdown...
Officers working a football security detail requested backup after seeing several groups of teenagers fighting near the tennis courts and parking lot. Montgomery County Public Schools security staff attempted to break up the fights, but hundreds of students ignored repeated requests to leave.
As reported by MCM, police attempted to de-escalate the situation by launching several air pops while ordering the crowd to leave the premises. Air pops are loud sounds that do not release ammunition or pepper.
Members of the social justice group “are deeply concerned,” according to a news release from Dorien Rogers, the group’s field organizer.
While nothing but air pops were released, according to police, Young People for Progress sent a news release decrying the police’s actions around high school students. “This action escalates fear, normalizes militarized policing in school settings, and communicates to young people that their presence warrants fear and force rather than care,” it states in the release...
Principal Mark Brown Jr. said in the letter that a student reported at roughly 1:40 p.m. that a classmate’s belongings were stolen by a former student at a park off-campus at approximately 12:30 p.m. Later, other students confronted the former student who then “gestured and commented in such a way that suggested he was in possession of a firearm.” Students also reported that the former student had left campus.
“However, per [Montgomery County Public Schools] district protocol, we moved into a hold and secure, as a precaution,” Brown said in the letter...
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/19/einstein-high-former-student/
Derrick Palmer was a football player at John F. Kennedy High School in Wheaton. He was killed at his home on Heartwood Drive on Saturday afternoon, according to Prince George’s County Police...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. - Montgomery County Public Schools held a meeting Tuesday night to address concerns about students and gun safety. It comes after two separate gun-related incidents that put Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School on lockdown last month.
While the recent lockdowns happened at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School the impact was felt in the surrounding community leaving parents wanting to know how to prevent another emergency.
This was the fourth safety meeting in two and a half years and that has parents concerned and angry.
A wide array of topics were discussed, from who is responsible for calling a lockdown to where to go for official information.
"That happened at 10 a.m. Why are kids allowed out of the campus at any time of day?" one attendee asked. "Why can’t they stay on campus during school hours?"..
MCPS parents continue to push for more safety measures after gun incidents | FOX 5 DC
Police said on social media Tuesday afternoon that a male juvenile taken into custody following the lockdown at the high school was in possession of an airsoft gun, a pellet gun that resembles a firearm. The student was charged with disruption of school activities, possession of a weapon on school property and possession of a concealed weapon, county police spokesperson Shiera Goff told Bethesda Today in an email Tuesday afternoon.
A Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School student allegedly involved in a Wednesday morning shooting during a fight in a downtown Bethesda park was ordered Friday to be held without bond in Montgomery County District Court in Rockville, according to digital court records.
No injuries were reported after the incident at Chase Avenue Urban Park at 4701 Chase Ave., less than 1 mile from the high school at 4301 East West Highway, according to the Maryland-National Capital Park Police. The shooting caused Bethesda-Chevy Chase High and a nearby private school to go into lockdown that morning.
Nicolas Paolo Blanco, 18, was arrested by the Maryland-National Capital Park Police on Thursday. He faces charges of first-degree assault, reckless endangerment and firearm-related offenses for the non-contact shooting during the fight involving a number of youths...
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/02/21/b-cc-student-park-shooting-held-without-bond/
In a letter to school families, Principal Shelton Mooney said that around 10:10 a.m. on Wednesday, a member of the community alerted the school that gunshots were heard in a nearby park. School staff then notified emergency personnel and police.
The people involved in the fight dispersed after the sound of gunshots and the school then went into lockdown mode out of an abundance of caution.
No one was hurt in the shooting.
After reviewing footage of the fight, Mooney said, it was determined that some of the people involved were students at Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Mooney said...
Principal Vickie Adamson sent a community letter sent to the Kennedy High community Thursday, saying students notified security staff at the end of fifth period that “a student may be in the possession of a gun.” According to the school’s bell schedule, fifth period ends at 12:48 p.m. School staff called 911, and the school went into a lockdown at 1:01 p.m., according to the letter.
According to police radio transmissions, Adamson called 911 at 12:56 p.m. after several students reported that they saw a student with a gun in his waistband...
...“These incidents are the culmination of what I have been complaining and advocating about for years,” Ribeiro said. “[There] has been a security problem at the school.”..
Alexis Jones-McDaniel, the mother of Jailyn Jones, sued MCPS, the Montgomery County Board of Education and the county itself in federal court.
“Not only did Northwest High School fail to protect Jailyn Lawrence Jones in any way, MCPS made informed decisions and took steps which actively increased the danger to and created new dangers Jailyn could not abate,” the complaint states...
...At the new school, the complaint states, Jones “was placed in classes with the same students by whom he had been bullied and had conflict at Clarksburg High School.”..
Another parent who attended Tuesday night's meeting, Yuki Nakandakri, expressed similar frustration, saying, "I came for answers, now I got more questions."
Students attending the meeting also left unsettled.
Alvaro Nakandakri, a junior, said, "There is no knowing what their intention was – it does bother me."..In response to the recent student arrest that took place on September 6, we understand there may be questions and concerns within our community. To provide clarity and open communication, we invite you to join us for a Parent Information Session.
Date: Tuesday, September 17
Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Northwest Auditorium
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On May 18, 2023, Montgomery County Police, Metro Transit Police and Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services all responded to the station for a shooting just before 6 p.m.
There, they found 18-year-old Tenneson Vaughn Leslie, Jr. unresponsive on the metro platform.
He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead a few hours later.
Investigators said that a fight broke out as a group of boys were going down an escalator. As Leslie and a few other were running from the escalator, the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office said that then-16-year-old Emmanuel Simmonds pulled out a gun and shot him in the back of the head.
Simmonds’s co-defendant, a 14-year-old boy, was seen on surveillance footage throwing the magazine with live ammo on the ground before boarding the train...
Gaithersburg teen sentenced for 2023 murder at Wheaton Metro Station | DC News Now
The MoCo Show first reported the incident and reprinted the letter Hopkins sent to the school community.
The incident comes after a handful of schools in the county received “swatting” calls and other threats which led to Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School being placed in lockdown on Thursday and Walt Whitman High School to evacuate students and Bethesda Elementary School briefly going on lockdown on Friday...
https://moco360.media/2024/05/21/bullet-found-in-boys-locker-room-at-tilden-middle-school/
For the remainder of the school day, the school had an increased security presence “out of an abundance of caution,” Mooney wrote. That means the number of security guards and staff assigned for monitoring was increased, according to Cram.
County police did not immediately respond to MoCo360’s request for comment Monday afternoon...
https://moco360.media/2024/05/13/b-cc-student-allegedly-brought-gun-to-school-later-fled-building/
High School Student Found with Gun on Campus
For Immediate Release: Monday, October 23, 2023
Gaithersburg, MD - A 17-year-old Walter Johnson High School student has been arrested and charged as an adult for possession of a firearm.
Akram Nassir of Bethesda was arrested after a witness reported to school security that the student had a gun. Montgomery County Public Schools security team members located the student, conducted a search and located a loaded 9 mm handgun.
At approximately 1:30 p.m., on Monday, October 23, 2023, Montgomery County Department of Police Community Engagement Officers were dispatched to the school, located in the 6400 block of Rock Spring Drive. Based on the information provided and evidence of the gun, officers arrested Nassir.
Nassir has been transported to the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit, where he awaits a bond hearing. He has been charged with underage possession of a firearm, possession of a loaded handgun and possession of a dangerous weapon on school property.
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Release ID: 23-612
Media Contact: S.D. Goff
Categories: firearm
Officers were called to the school in Silver Spring following a self-search by the student. As a result of the search, parts of a personally made firearm, or ghost gun, were located.
Around 12:45 p.m., the security staff had confiscated part of a ghost gun from the male student. The school staff then called police...
Police said they responded to Richard Montgomery on Jan. 13 for a report of an assault that happened inside the school. A student also later reported seeing a gun outside the school, which led to the school being placed on lockdown...
3 students charged with robbery after alleged assault at Montgomery Co. high school - WTOP News
