Armed Teenager In Cape St. Claire Was Carrying Pellet Gun; Window Shattering On Police Vehicle Seen As ‘Unrelated Circumstance,’ Police Say

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CAPE ST. CLAIRE, Md. (WJZ) — An equipped teen whose presence successful the woods adjacent 2 section schools connected Monday prompted officers to acceptable up a perimeter astir the country was carrying a pellet weapon and volition not beryllium charged with immoderate crime, Anne Arundel County constabulary said Tuesday.

During a Monday greeting walk, a pistillate encountered the boy, whom she described arsenic being a 15- to 17-year-old achromatic antheral successful a brownish and achromatic camo-style jacket, and asked him what helium was doing. He replied helium was shooting tiny animals.

The pistillate returned location and called the police.

Officers, detectives and specialty units converged connected the area, formed the perimeter and began a search, constabulary said connected Tuesday. A pistillate who lives adjacent the Elementary schoolhouse told WJZ connected Monday “I started seeing individuals get retired of vehicles successful tactical cogwheel I knew it wouldn’t beryllium a normal… morning.”

One serviceman connected the perimeter was sitting connected the dashboard of his cruiser eating meal erstwhile helium heard a “pop” and the backmost model of his conveyance shattered. “The conveyance was successful park, and the serviceman did not spot anyone erstwhile the model shattered,” constabulary said Wednseday.

In archetypal reports, constabulary tweeted an equipped fishy had fired astatine officers. Two schools successful the area, Cape St. Claire Elementary School and Broadneck High School, were placed into a “lockout.”

But investigators present judge the model shattered owed to an “unrelated circumstance,” constabulary said Wednesday. The substance is inactive nether investigation.

Detectives did find the boy, who is 18 years old, and helium admitted to speaking with the pistillate who called police. Investigators located the handgun and confirmed it is simply a pellet gun.

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