Report of shooting at or near wootton

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

Much like I applauded and support the rights of the BCC students to exercise their first amendment rights by walking out, I fully support my 2nd amendment rights to lawfully own a gun. No Amendment in the Constitution is any more important than another and refusal to understand that will lead to a very slippery slope when they decide that women no longer need the right to vote.

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

While I support common sense gun safety laws, Maryland already has a lot of those. And last night, a teen at the Silver Spring Metro stabbed three other teenagers. In Europe, running over people with cars has become a substitute for shooting people. Ultimately, this is a people problem, not a gun problem.

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What's happening at Garfield High school? Not an MCPS

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Anonymous wrote:What's happening at Garfield High school? Not an MCPS

Gun sighting on campus but no shots

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Anonymous wrote:I often wonder if using explosives dogs would be an option. I don’t know how many people a dog can process or how long they can go without a rest, but they can detect ammunition with amazing alacrity.

Braedon is allergic to dogs and Kaytelynne is afraid of them.

People can opt for hand inspection. Nobody’s afraid of a beagle.

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

While I support common sense gun safety laws, Maryland already has a lot of those. And last night, a teen at the Silver Spring Metro stabbed three other teenagers. In Europe, running over people with cars has become a substitute for shooting people. Ultimately, this is a people problem, not a gun problem.

It’s an easy access to guns problem.

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

While I support common sense gun safety laws, Maryland already has a lot of those. And last night, a teen at the Silver Spring Metro stabbed three other teenagers. In Europe, running over people with cars has become a substitute for shooting people. Ultimately, this is a people problem, not a gun problem.

It’s an easy access to guns problem.

“Easy” access to firearms is an unfounded slogan. Lawful access to firearms, especially in Maryland, is anything but “easy.” Criminal access to contraband is — well — already criminal.

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

While I support common sense gun safety laws, Maryland already has a lot of those. And last night, a teen at the Silver Spring Metro stabbed three other teenagers. In Europe, running over people with cars has become a substitute for shooting people. Ultimately, this is a people problem, not a gun problem.

It’s an easy access to guns problem.

“Easy” access to firearms is an unfounded slogan. Lawful access to firearms, especially in Maryland, is anything but “easy.” Criminal access to contraband is — well — already criminal.

Clearly a child had easy access to a gun.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Small community-based schools. No local school board would permit the transfer in of alleged troubled students into its home schools.

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

While I support common sense gun safety laws, Maryland already has a lot of those. And last night, a teen at the Silver Spring Metro stabbed three other teenagers. In Europe, running over people with cars has become a substitute for shooting people. Ultimately, this is a people problem, not a gun problem.

It’s an easy access to guns problem.

“Easy” access to firearms is an unfounded slogan. Lawful access to firearms, especially in Maryland, is anything but “easy.” Criminal access to contraband is — well — already criminal.

Clearly a child had easy access to a gun.

An illegal gun. Not a legal one.

So the conversation around gun safety laws are moot here, since this isn't a legal gun safety issue.

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The teen had run away before. The teen’s sister had run away before. These are quickly Google-able. This student and family were clearly troubled for some time. I am completely in support of whatever gun control we can have, but we also really need to address mental health and violence among our teens. Literally the same day there was a 20-person fight with three teens stabbed in Silver Spring. The kids are not right.

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Anonymous wrote:Return SROs - principals NEVER wanted them to be removed. County Executives did it anyways.

They have one. He just happened to not be on site.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2026/02/1-shot-inside-wootton-high-school-in-rockville/

That's because it's not an SRO but a CEO. A CEO does not stay inside the school nor walk the halls unless invited by the Principal. A CEO is shared with the cluster.

Bring back SROs.

No, we don't need police in schools and they don't really stop shit like this from happening, anyway. See Uvalde or Parkland, for example.

Yes, we do. A good officer could shoot the shooter. There are plenty of situations where they do step in and resolve it. The two you are choosing are the worst but there are many times SRO's save lives. Some schools have an officer sitting outside a lot of time. Ours do.

All schools needs metal detectors. The school is huge. An officer cant cover the whole school. They would not have prevented a one off shooting targeting a specific individual. A police officer may be able to reduce the amount of people killed in a mass shooting but most times, they won’t be able to stop a shooting from happening in the first place.

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The WUSA story said that the student had a ghost gun. Not an expert here, but wouldn't a metal detector be useless in that instance? (obviously it would prevent other firearms from getting through....just saying that I don't know if it would have made a difference here).

I personally think that re-instating the SRO program and focusing on prevention is the most critical need here.

Ammo casings likely would set off the alarm but yeah

The outside of the gun is all polymer but the inside is still metal. Otherwise it would fall apart

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Anonymous wrote:The teen had run away before. The teen’s sister had run away before. These are quickly Google-able. This student and family were clearly troubled for some time. I am completely in support of whatever gun control we can have, but we also really need to address mental health and violence among our teens. Literally the same day there was a 20-person fight with three teens stabbed in Silver Spring. The kids are not right.

Or better, get more help for struggling families and students.

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It would never happen because the telecommunications companies are too powerful but we really should ban smartphone use for people under the age of 21. We have seen numerous studies that show that smartphone use is as addictive if not more addictive than alcohol and tobacco use. It's also just as damaging to the wellbeing of young people whose brains have not fully developed.

Kids under 21 should be required to have phones that text and make calls but no internet access. We all survived the days of Nokia bricks, they can as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Has MCPS sent out a statement about this yet? We're not close to the school but our parent community is still talking about it.

Lol.

In the past, it is parents at the high schools who had an incident pasting on here the communications they received from mcps or the school administration

Insane to me that it has been almost 24 hours and no note from Taylor. Not even an attempt to reassure parents that situation is handled, or even vague attempts to assure safety or security. We're not asking for a plan. Just an acknowledgement that the most serious type of incident you could expect in your district has happened....and radio silence? No communication protocol for the rest of the district? This is a total failure to communicate to or support the community. It does not treat this incident with the significance it deserves. Unacceptable. Inexcusable.