Northwood High student charged as adult with possession of loaded handgun on campus

A Northwood High School attendee is facing gun charges including possession of a firearm on school property following his arrest Friday morning after an altercation and lockdown at the Rockville campus Montgomery County police revealed Friday afternoon in a message The -year-old from Silver Spring was also charged with possessing a firearm without a serial number having a handgun on a person possession of a firearm by a minor and carrying a loaded handgun police revealed Charged as an adult he was being held Friday in the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit in Rockville where he awaits a bond hearing Bethesda In contemporary times is not naming the candidate because he is a minor On Friday police announced officers were dispatched at roughly a m for the account of a trainee with a gun at Northwood The school is housed in the Charles W Woodward High School building at Old Georgetown Road in Rockville while its Silver Spring campus undergoes reconstruction The caller shared that two students were involved in an altercation and a witness advised school staff that one of the students was armed the report declared Responding officers searched the -year-old and discovered a loaded D printed privately manufactured firearm also known as a ghost gun in his waistband police explained The scholar was arrested without event according to police In a public letter sent to Northwood High families on Friday Principal Jonathan Garrick explained a verbal altercation occurred between two students Friday morning The students involved were placed in secure locations under supervision Garrick noted and upon review it was shared that one of the students had a firearm Garrick explained the school right now contacted police who conducted a search and determined a firearm requiring the school to enter a lockdown The pupil was safely transported by police from our school and we were able to lift the LOCKDOWN and move to a HOLD and then resume functions as is our typical process during serious incidents Garrick mentioned in the letter This is at the moment a police matter Friday was the second time this school year that Northwood High has been placed on lockdown In September administrators ordered a lockdown and secure status after reports of a weapon on campus During that episode a gun magazine BB gun and a live mm round were recovered from students Source