Report of shooting at or near wootton

[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?

[Anonymous]

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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]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[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.

What happened to Noyes?

Mcps certainly didn’t learn from Damascus or Magruder, and here we are.

[Anonymous]

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

They didn’t commit a crime so no.

[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.

Getting expelled is not easy. You only get expelled for very serious offences. Bringing a gun to school will get you expelled assuming you get caught. Shooting or stabbing someone will also get you expelled. Being a drug dealer might possibly also get you expelled. Not much else really

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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.

Source?

Not PP, but I also heard about ankle bracelet from one of the Wootton kids. Also, the kid who was shot attacked the suspect earlier in the day.

[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.

Getting expelled is not easy. You only get expelled for very serious offences. Bringing a gun to school will get you expelled assuming you get caught. Shooting or stabbing someone will also get you expelled. Being a drug dealer might possibly also get you expelled. Not much else really

Yeah, it's hard to believe he was expelled if he has a clean criminal record....but people seem determined to paint a narrative here.