Report of shooting at or near wootton

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/local/mother-shares-heartache-after-son-is-shot-at-wootton-high-school/4058381/

This is very interesting.

Very concerning why both of these kids were moved by MCPS to Wootton out of their home districts.

The student who was the shooter lives in the Wootton cluster, is what we were told at the parent meeting last night.

The shooter attended Blake last year. That's why there has been speculation that he's been at Wootton on a COSA.

Yeah, families move. Wootton parents are so crazy they need to chill on multiple levels.

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His family did not move. MCPS moved him and the victim. Neither lives in the cluster. MCPS failed both of these students.

His address is Chantilly Court in Rockville listed on arrest records. That is Wootton cluster. Rockshire neighborhood, Fallsmead area. Are you saying he lied about his address when arrested??
People move all the time ...

Try turning on a television instead of blogging here trying to spin...

The shooter recently transferred from Blake HS in Silver Spring on a COSA. (It was on TV..)

Even better - the mother of the kid shot complained last year (to his "mental health professional") her kid was bullied at Wootton and wanted to transfer but was denied? (On TV, another channel...)

So it's true - neither of these kids should never had been at Wootton this year! Someone stirred the pot by COSA'ing one in and blocking one out!!!!! That's the real story that the press needs to dig into!!!

It's no wonder Wootton boosters have a bad reputation. Posts like yours just reinforced that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope people aren’t using this thread to get the facts. There are so many false claims and accusations. Stick to what you know for a fact from the police/court directly.

One child shot another. He was new to Wootton and lived in the cluster. In court, it was stated he had no prior record. We do not know his motive for a fact. Just a lot of rumors.

The victim is in the hospital. We have heard nothing official about a criminal record. Mom reports he was bullied and denied a COSA to transfer. The accused was not bullying him last year since he was not at Wootton himself. There’s a poster who keeps connecting Mr Nelson’s dismissal to the victim but as a Wootton parent, I don’t see any connection.

We don’t know if Mom and sister knew the accused had shot someone.

I know it’s hard to patiently wait for the investigation to conclude but that’s what needs to be done.

As a Wootton parent, I am more concerned with the MCPS response after, particularly the poorly executed reunification process and the decision to open schools on Tuesday. Yes, they later stated it was optional, non-instructional and about emotional support but that was definitely not the message we received before the school day started. Staff and students felt pressure to show up to a place where they were traumatized less than 12 hours after returning home.

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What an unbelievably stupid post. Maybe try one iota of fact-checking before ranting and raving nonsense about why MCPS didn't arbitrarily place teenagers in a special ed school for elementary kids. Just beyond uninformed. If this is the kind of hysterical nonsense that parents send to the schools, no wonder they don't listen.

+1000. And they listed Title 1 like it's an independent school

I'm trying to get criminals out of the schools and lock them up so they don't shoot other kids.

What are you doing?

Better take a real hard look in the mirror sunshine.

Then get your facts straight honey. The student that got shot was the "criminal" with the ankle monitor, not the shooter.

Get your facts straight honey. BOTH were criminals.

The shooter recently transferred into Wootton from Blake HS in Silver Spring. Charged with attempted second‑degree murder, two counts of first‑degree assault, two counts of second‑degree assault, and (multiple) firearms‑related charges such as possession of a dangerous weapon on school property. Potentially faces 30+ years of charges and will remain in custody at an adult (not juvenile) detention facility without bond.

The shooter claimed in court that he wasn't the aggressor. The kid shot is the same kid who told his "mental health professional" last year he was bullied at Wootton, making all the fuss that got the Principal replaced. His mom wanted to transfer him out but claims she was blocked. There is also a claim that the kid shot was wearing an ankle monitor.

But in court yesterday it was stated the shooter had no priors - so he was not a criminal prior to Monday. You have no evidence that he should have been placed anywhere else other than the public school where he lives, which is where he was. While I get wishing there was a way this could have been avoided, it would be a horrible policy for MCPS to just start sending kids to alternate placements because they transferred mid year - and I know no one is really honestly saying they should, but thats how many of these posts read when you say that young man should have been in an alternate school! We simply don't know enough yet to make that statement.

Now, if the victim's mom pursues legal action, that may lead to an investigation on the shooters school records and then it'd be known if the shooter had a history in MCPS of causing trouble. The shooter could not have been connected to the bullying last year though since he was not at Wootton then.

The shooters sister was a missing child in 2022. Around age 16 and police were looking for her as a runaway or possibly endangered.

Mommy has quite a history as well.

Like you said we don't know enough. What we do know is a gun shot by a human hurt another human at a school filled with kids. That is what we should all be addressing the guns, mental health, and school procedures in these matters.

If it comes out that the shooter was being bullied and the school system did nothing will that process ever be addressed, so it would be less likely to end in a child being shot. Nope.

However the shooters family unfortunately lost their right to privacy when he took that gun and shot someone inside a school and when mommy & sister tried to help him escape.

What you have dug up on the mother and sister confirms the boy came from a troubled home. But having a troubled background does not make you a criminal. Doing something criminal makes you criminal.

Khalil White-Villatoro became a criminal once he decided to shoot his classmate. Does the troubled background at home explain why he might have gone down the path of criminality? Sure. But since it was confirmed in court that he had no criminal record prior to this incident, those who seek to continue labeling him as a known criminal who was transferred into the school are peddling a lie. I'll hold back on making assumptions about why they might be invested in doing that, even though it's obvious to me.

I would, however, strongly disagree that the school failing to follow-up on bullying claims is disconnected from this incident. Incidents like this escalate to violence when schools fail to adequately respond to bullying and conflict. If MCPS had competent people, systems and processes for handling conflict in schools, this shooting absolutely could have been prevented.

MCPS must be held accountable.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/local/mother-shares-heartache-after-son-is-shot-at-wootton-high-school/4058381/

This is very interesting.

Very concerning why both of these kids were moved by MCPS to Wootton out of their home districts.

The student who was the shooter lives in the Wootton cluster, is what we were told at the parent meeting last night.

The shooter attended Blake last year. That's why there has been speculation that he's been at Wootton on a COSA.

Yeah, families move. Wootton parents are so crazy they need to chill on multiple levels.

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His family did not move. MCPS moved him and the victim. Neither lives in the cluster. MCPS failed both of these students.

His address is Chantilly Court in Rockville listed on arrest records. That is Wootton cluster. Rockshire neighborhood, Fallsmead area. Are you saying he lied about his address when arrested??
People move all the time ...

Try turning on a television instead of blogging here trying to spin...

The shooter recently transferred from Blake HS in Silver Spring on a COSA. (It was on TV..)

Even better - the mother of the kid shot complained last year (to his "mental health professional") her kid was bullied at Wootton and wanted to transfer but was denied? (On TV, another channel...)

So it's true - neither of these kids should never had been at Wootton this year! Someone stirred the pot by COSA'ing one in and blocking one out!!!!! That's the real story that the press needs to dig into!!!

It's no wonder Wootton boosters have a bad reputation. Posts like yours just reinforced that.

I agree. There's an ugly, racist contingent among the Wootton parent community and we saw this when the race issues came to the fore with Doug Nelson in 2024.

[Anonymous]

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What an unbelievably stupid post. Maybe try one iota of fact-checking before ranting and raving nonsense about why MCPS didn't arbitrarily place teenagers in a special ed school for elementary kids. Just beyond uninformed. If this is the kind of hysterical nonsense that parents send to the schools, no wonder they don't listen.

+1000. And they listed Title 1 like it's an independent school

I'm trying to get criminals out of the schools and lock them up so they don't shoot other kids.

What are you doing?

Better take a real hard look in the mirror sunshine.

Then get your facts straight honey. The student that got shot was the "criminal" with the ankle monitor, not the shooter.

Get your facts straight honey. BOTH were criminals.

The shooter recently transferred into Wootton from Blake HS in Silver Spring. Charged with attempted second‑degree murder, two counts of first‑degree assault, two counts of second‑degree assault, and (multiple) firearms‑related charges such as possession of a dangerous weapon on school property. Potentially faces 30+ years of charges and will remain in custody at an adult (not juvenile) detention facility without bond.

The shooter claimed in court that he wasn't the aggressor. The kid shot is the same kid who told his "mental health professional" last year he was bullied at Wootton, making all the fuss that got the Principal replaced. His mom wanted to transfer him out but claims she was blocked. There is also a claim that the kid shot was wearing an ankle monitor.

But in court yesterday it was stated the shooter had no priors - so he was not a criminal prior to Monday. You have no evidence that he should have been placed anywhere else other than the public school where he lives, which is where he was. While I get wishing there was a way this could have been avoided, it would be a horrible policy for MCPS to just start sending kids to alternate placements because they transferred mid year - and I know no one is really honestly saying they should, but thats how many of these posts read when you say that young man should have been in an alternate school! We simply don't know enough yet to make that statement.

Now, if the victim's mom pursues legal action, that may lead to an investigation on the shooters school records and then it'd be known if the shooter had a history in MCPS of causing trouble. The shooter could not have been connected to the bullying last year though since he was not at Wootton then.

Trying to imply things and play the race card again? Read it again. Maybe with glasses this time.

The shooter recently transferred into Wootton from Blake HS in Silver Spring. That's a fact. That explains why the parent's at Wootton don't seem to know this kid, since most Wootton kids are pretty sociable and hang out together or at each others homes. So how and where did the shooter (with no priors) obtain a ghost gun and ammunition? Is that legal? Oh, wait. It's one of the charges against him. Regardless whether or not he had priors, the shooter is now facing a possible 30+ years of charges and will remain in custody at an adult (not juvenile) detention facility without bond. That's a fact as well.

He'll have his day in court with an attorney, but do you really think he'll walk right back into Wootton again? I'd love to see MCPS do that! Maybe we can lobby to fire the new Principal and his supporters in the same day?

The mother of the kid who was shot gave an interview. Put it all out there. She claimed her son told her, the school and his "mental health professional" that he was a victim of bullying last year and tried to transfer him out. That was all the big fuss last year about Wootton that resulted in the Principal (who was a good one) getting replaced. The shooter claimed in court that he wasn't the aggressor. Those are all facts.

There is also a claim that the kid shot was wearing an ankle bracelet. Those are for the hardcore kids one step away from incarceration.

In other words, the same kid just happened to be involved in both the alleged 'racism' mess at Wootton last year, and shooting incident this year. Quite a coincidence. So if, as his mother claimed in her TV interview, she requested school re-assignment, why wasn't it granted by MCPS? Why didn't the new Principal accomodate the request?

That is the story behind the stories here. There are many at MCPS that need to be fired this time.

Most kids are not hanging out, some but many get excluded for various reasons and seeing how the parents are here, one can speculate some reasons. Many principals don’t respond to parent concerns.

[Anonymous]

White was at Wootton Nov of last year so for those of you saying he had only been there 2-3 weeks that is inaccurate info.

He was expelled from Paint Branch and MCPS sent him to Blake.
This is one of the biggest issues. If a child is expelled from one MCPS school they should not just get to go to another MCPS school.
This happens at the MS level too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White was at Wootton Nov of last year so for those of you saying he had only been there 2-3 weeks that is inaccurate info.

He was expelled from Paint Branch and MCPS sent him to Blake.
This is one of the biggest issues. If a child is expelled from one MCPS school they should not just get to go to another MCPS school.
This happens at the MS level too.

If what you're saying is true, then he did not have criminal record, but he might have had a disciplinary record that caused him to change schools prior to Wootton.

Again, that's relevant to how MCPS might have failed in managing his behavioral issues, and how their failure to manage and rehabilitate him of those issues led to this shooting.

I imagine, if true, this is information that would come out in court.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:White was at Wootton Nov of last year so for those of you saying he had only been there 2-3 weeks that is inaccurate info.

He was expelled from Paint Branch and MCPS sent him to Blake.
This is one of the biggest issues. If a child is expelled from one MCPS school they should not just get to go to another MCPS school.
This happens at the MS level too.

If what you're saying is true, then he did not have criminal record, but he might have had a disciplinary record that caused him to change schools prior to Wootton.

Again, that's relevant to how MCPS might have failed in managing his behavioral issues, and how their failure to manage and rehabilitate him of those issues led to this shooting.

I imagine, if true, this is information that would come out in court.

I think his parent(s) failed to manage his behavior issues but agree that MCPS failed him and other students in just moving him around. The PB to Blake switch never should have happened.
The Wootton switch occurred because the family moved to Rockville from the Briggs Chaney area.

[Anonymous]

It's MCPS standard policy to move a troubled student to another school. If you remember the Damascus locker room gang rape case from a few years ago, the perpetrator was on his third MCPS high school by that point.

They shut down Mark Twain years ago for equity reasons (too many of certain races and gender ended up there), but seems like that would be a useful place to send troubled students, and not to another school to make more tboule.

Oh, and as usual, no MCPS staff changes will be made. In the Damascus case, the principal (who wait until the next day to report the alleged rape to the police) was just reassigned to a cushy job in the central office.

[Anonymous]

Reminds me of the thread the other day about how people could spend $60k/year to send their kid to private and isn't that such a waste of money...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's MCPS standard policy to move a troubled student to another school. If you remember the Damascus locker room gang rape case from a few years ago, the perpetrator was on his third MCPS high school by that point.

They shut down Mark Twain years ago for equity reasons (too many of certain races and gender ended up there), but seems like that would be a useful place to send troubled students, and not to another school to make more tboule.

Oh, and as usual, no MCPS staff changes will be made. In the Damascus case, the principal (who wait until the next day to report the alleged rape to the police) was just reassigned to a cushy job in the central office.

MCPS standard policy in this regard is failing. They need to change re-evaluate it.

They shut down Mark Twain because of the OPTICS related to equity, but not because they actually cared about the equitable outcomes for Black and Hispanic kids, who make up the majority of suspensions and expulsions.

Shutting down Mark Twain for "equity" while not addressing the underlying issues that are the root cause of the behavioral issues and instead just making them another principal's problem, is as bad or maybe worse than shuffling them off to Mark Twain.

I think the real issue is that MCPS is not good at responding to and rehabilitating kids with behavioral issues and so they default to one of two responses:

1) Discard and dispose of the kids and treat them like prisoners, which is not tenable for legal reasons
2) Ignore and excuse the behaviors and make everyone else (other students and their teachers) suffer while you insist anyone who complains is racist

Neither stance is good and leads to the same outcome: Unsafe schools for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Wow Mcps is such a mess

[Anonymous]

New to the thread… have not read all the messsges. Have they arrested Mom and daughter?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/local/mother-shares-heartache-after-son-is-shot-at-wootton-high-school/4058381/

This is very interesting.

Very concerning why both of these kids were moved by MCPS to Wootton out of their home districts.

The student who was the shooter lives in the Wootton cluster, is what we were told at the parent meeting last night.

The shooter attended Blake last year. That's why there has been speculation that he's been at Wootton on a COSA.

Yeah, families move. Wootton parents are so crazy they need to chill on multiple levels.

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His family did not move. MCPS moved him and the victim. Neither lives in the cluster. MCPS failed both of these students.

His address is Chantilly Court in Rockville listed on arrest records. That is Wootton cluster. Rockshire neighborhood, Fallsmead area. Are you saying he lied about his address when arrested??
People move all the time ...

Try turning on a television instead of blogging here trying to spin...

The shooter recently transferred from Blake HS in Silver Spring on a COSA. (It was on TV..)

Even better - the mother of the kid shot complained last year (to his "mental health professional") her kid was bullied at Wootton and wanted to transfer but was denied? (On TV, another channel...)

So it's true - neither of these kids should never had been at Wootton this year! Someone stirred the pot by COSA'ing one in and blocking one out!!!!! That's the real story that the press needs to dig into!!!

It's no wonder Wootton boosters have a bad reputation. Posts like yours just reinforced that.

I agree. There's an ugly, racist contingent among the Wootton parent community and we saw this when the race issues came to the fore with Doug Nelson in 2024.

We see it in their building advocacy when they asked the BOE to not fund repairs for a silver spring ES and give the money to them instead. Who does that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's MCPS standard policy to move a troubled student to another school. If you remember the Damascus locker room gang rape case from a few years ago, the perpetrator was on his third MCPS high school by that point.

They shut down Mark Twain years ago for equity reasons (too many of certain races and gender ended up there), but seems like that would be a useful place to send troubled students, and not to another school to make more tboule.

Oh, and as usual, no MCPS staff changes will be made. In the Damascus case, the principal (who wait until the next day to report the alleged rape to the police) was just reassigned to a cushy job in the central office.

MCPS standard policy in this regard is failing. They need to change re-evaluate it.

They shut down Mark Twain because of the OPTICS related to equity, but not because they actually cared about the equitable outcomes for Black and Hispanic kids, who make up the majority of suspensions and expulsions.

Shutting down Mark Twain for "equity" while not addressing the underlying issues that are the root cause of the behavioral issues and instead just making them another principal's problem, is as bad or maybe worse than shuffling them off to Mark Twain.

I think the real issue is that MCPS is not good at responding to and rehabilitating kids with behavioral issues and so they default to one of two responses:

1) Discard and dispose of the kids and treat them like prisoners, which is not tenable for legal reasons
2) Ignore and excuse the behaviors and make everyone else (other students and their teachers) suffer while you insist anyone who complains is racist

Neither stance is good and leads to the same outcome: Unsafe schools for everyone.

These kids fall under DJJ, which would have been Noyes.