Santa Rosa college battle results in discovery of assault rifle at Montgomery Excessive College scholar’s residence
(BCN) — An unregistered AR-15-style rifle was discovered within the residence of a 14-year-old Montgomery Excessive College scholar by Santa Rosa detectives investigating a risk towards a center college scholar, police mentioned Friday.
The gun was seized Tuesday within the 900 block of Aston Avenue after a gang-related video concentrating on a 13-year-old at Herbert Slater Center College, police mentioned.
The center college’s employees instructed police two handguns had been brandished within the video whereas a bunch of 4 individuals, two from Montgomery Excessive, threatened to beat up the 13-year-old, police mentioned. Fearing potential violence on college grounds, officers had been posted on the campuses of each Slater Center College on Sonoma Avenue and Montgomery Excessive College on Hahman Drive, police mentioned.
The case is rooted in a disturbance on the center college on Sept. 1, when a number of juveniles who weren’t college students there got here on campus and began a battle with the 13-year-old, police mentioned. College employees ordered college students to shelter in place order and tried to interrupt up the battle. The assailants left earlier than police arrived.
The 13-year-old wasn’t injured and refused to cooperate with the investigation, police mentioned. The gun was found when detectives searched the house of a 14-year-old suspect. The gun was situated in a backpack later decided to belong to the suspect’s sibling, a 16-year-old Montgomery scholar.
No threats to the college or normal scholar physique at both campus had been made, police mentioned. Anybody with data is inspired to contact the Santa Rosa Police Division by means of its on-line tip line: www.srcity.org/CrimeTips or (707) 543-3595.
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