Westfield HS-Student murdered

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is at least one gang member in every school - see article from 2004

http://m.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2004/nov/17/gangs-do-exist-in-fairfax-county-police-say/

But as pointed out in the boundary thread that info is from 2004. Where can you obtain statistics on this? It’s like the fentanyl issue before the state started requiring notifications of ODs on campus. Why is this information so difficult to find?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is at least one gang member in every school - see article from 2004

http://m.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2004/nov/17/gangs-do-exist-in-fairfax-county-police-say/

But as pointed out in the boundary thread that info is from 2004. Where can you obtain statistics on this? It’s like the fentanyl issue before the state started requiring notifications of ODs on campus. Why is this information so difficult to find?

Because people will scrape and scramble getting out of certain pyramids and into others, or find some other way to avoid schools with the most entrenched issues.

[Anonymous]

Drugs and gangs are in every FCPS high school. Period, no school is immune.

I’m a FCPS grad, Langley had one of the worst drug problems back in the day. They were the wealthiest to afford the drugs. I know a Langley alum who would not purchase a house in the district because more money, more issues. There is no utopia in FCPS high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is at least one gang member in every school - see article from 2004

http://m.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2004/nov/17/gangs-do-exist-in-fairfax-county-police-say/

But as pointed out in the boundary thread that info is from 2004. Where can you obtain statistics on this? It’s like the fentanyl issue before the state started requiring notifications of ODs on campus. Why is this information so difficult to find?

Most of the kids who are in gangs are not the kids who are causing serious trouble in school. Ask any secondary teacher. They're trying to stay off the radar of law enforcement. There's a huge thread on r/teachers about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is at least one gang member in every school - see article from 2004

http://m.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2004/nov/17/gangs-do-exist-in-fairfax-county-police-say/

But as pointed out in the boundary thread that info is from 2004. Where can you obtain statistics on this? It’s like the fentanyl issue before the state started requiring notifications of ODs on campus. Why is this information so difficult to find?

Most of the kids who are in gangs are not the kids who are causing serious trouble in school. Ask any secondary teacher. They're trying to stay off the radar of law enforcement. There's a huge thread on r/teachers about this.

100% true. I used to work at TC Williams and several students of mine were arrested for violent crimes; every one of them was mostly polite and quiet in school. They didn’t participate or get great grades but they also weren’t the ones causing trouble in the building.

[Anonymous]

Most of the truly dangerous kids do not attend school much at all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is at least one gang member in every school - see article from 2004

http://m.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2004/nov/17/gangs-do-exist-in-fairfax-county-police-say/

There are some absolute gems in that article:

"When asked why residents of Great Falls never hear of gang activity in their community, Vencak told those at the meeting there might not be incidents occurring at schools, but the members are there." [They were salivating to get told by the police that Herndon kids were venturing over into their neighborhoods, and they didn't get what they wanted.]

"A gang is defined as three or more people that hang out in a group in a particular area, wearing the same sort of clothing or colors, Pengelly said."

So now you know why there is at least one gang member at Langley. Forget about MS-13, those Crazy Mean Girls hanging out in the parking lot will make your child's life total hell.

I taught in Vienna....lots of MS13

[Anonymous]

A quick google search finds articles indicating the shooter was not a westfield high student but graduated from mountainview alternative (which people on this forum say is a great school lol) and was charged with a felony related to prior investigation concerning cocaine dealing in addition to second degree murder of the wfh
student.

[Anonymous]

The shooter went to WFHS for several years --this has not been published--and then either (1) was kicked out for disciplinary reasons or (2) did not graduate on time and transferred to Mountain View.
(1) seems more likely if he is only 18 this year.

[Anonymous]

Will the suspect be released? If so, how soon?

[Anonymous]

Confirmed. MSNumber are in the high schools, including the highly coveted schools, for many years now. People coming across the border with no paperwork can declare themselves as 16 or 17 y.o., so they get free everything. Saw a 26+ y.o. "girl" self register, she was a scary MF. Principal was unable to get her out of particular school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Confirmed. MSNumber are in the high schools, including the highly coveted schools, for many years now. People coming across the border with no paperwork can declare themselves as 16 or 17 y.o., so they get free everything. Saw a 26+ y.o. "girl" self register, she was a scary MF. Principal was unable to get her out of particular school.

DCUM won’t believe the bolded.

BTW Any update on the shooter? Still in custody?

[Anonymous]

I haven't seen anything about him having bail set.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is at least one gang member in every school - see article from 2004

http://m.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2004/nov/17/gangs-do-exist-in-fairfax-county-police-say/

But as pointed out in the boundary thread that info is from 2004. Where can you obtain statistics on this? It’s like the fentanyl issue before the state started requiring notifications of ODs on campus. Why is this information so difficult to find?

Because people will scrape and scramble getting out of certain pyramids and into others, or find some other way to avoid schools with the most entrenched issues.

They are all pretty entrenched but if you have honor roll athletes you are very likely not noticing the issues.