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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.[/quote]

Perfect hearsay.[/quote]
but repeating that there were two gang related gun incidences at RM when the police said there was only one, and neither were gang related, is not hearsay?[/quote]

I’m an RM parent.  The police did not say there were not two gun related incidents.  They said there was on incident in which the individual was found with a gun on them and one in which the police did not locate the gun.  I was listening to the police scanners as it happened.  The students saw the gun (and the principal acknowledged that the students were circulating photos of what appeared to be a gun), but the individuals ran off into the woods between the school and the apartment building.  The police circled around the apartment building but did not find them, at least in the hours i was listening.  It seems to me likely the kid had a gun and either tossed it in the woods or stashed it in one of the apartments.  They were carefully worded comminciwtions from the school and MCPD.  I don’t have any knowledge as to whether or not they were gang related.  I think people made assumptions that teen boys running around with guns were likely gang affiliated but I don’t know what the correlation is there.  [/quote]
PP here.. I'm an RM parent, and the gossip is not helping. I'm fully aware of what the police stated in that case, and the gossip going around. My own kids have reiterated the gossip.

The police stated that there was no evidence that the first incident involved a gun. People said that they saw what "looked like" a gun, but that doesn't mean there was one. Maybe it was a toy gun. Maybe it wasn't even a toy gun. We don't know, but people like you keep saying that it was a gun.

How many times have we read new stories where someone, including the police, thought some person had a gun, and they shot them, and it turned out that it wasn't a gun?

The gossip is fueling fears. I''m not saying RM has no issues. It absolutely does. But let's focus on what we know factually, and not what what people gossip about.[/quote]

I generally agree that gossip doesn’t help but in this particular case it didn’t seem like gossip.  Multiple kids saw what looked like a gun.  The police saw the kids running off into the woods, but did not catch the kids.  So they say they can’t confirm that there was a gun.  The PP said only one of the instances involved a gun, and I corrected that—one definitely did, and the second possibly or probably did.  I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt to the kids that saw the gun, particularly where the individuals in question fled the scene.   MCPD could circulate the videos/pics that the kids took, but they haven’t done thar.  And Ms Deeny’s email confirmed that the pictures contained something that looked like a gun. Also keep in mind it’s the same kids who were there earlier in the day fighting, left, and then returned to the school.  All of that adds up to meets a more likely than not standard for me.  We can’t know for sure, of course, because they were t detained in a timely manner.  
I’m not saying this is the end of the world …. I’m sure guys I went to HS with had guns and no one particularly cared back then.  [/quote]

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