In the News: Weapons Cache at Home of Maryland Teen Who Brought Gun to School

Alwin Chen, a student at Clarksburg High School in Montgomery County

How do parents NOT know that their kids are assembling a war-chest of weapons?  - If they DO know, why don't they call the police, a psychiatrist, or someone to get the kid HELP?
  It's unfathomable to us how teenagers can get firearms.  If you missed this in the news this week, there was a teenager here in Maryland with assault weapons and a list of students he had issues with. 

Authorities reportedly found multiple guns – including an AR-15 style rifle – and a list of grievances against fellow students at the home of a Montgomery County honor roll student charged with bringing a loaded gun to school last week.


By Dan Morse, The Washington Post
Police in Maryland found an AR-15 styled rifle, a shotgun, two handguns, landmines, ammunition and a tactical vest in the home of an 18-year-old honor roll student who police say last week brought a loaded 9mm handgun to school, authorities said Tuesday.

Officers also discovered that the suspect — Alwin Chen, a student at Clarksburg High School in Montgomery County — had previously brought the same handgun to school and had compiled a “list of grievances against students in the school,” Montgomery Assistant State’s Attorney Frank Lazzaro said.
 
THE PARENTS' GUNS?
Chen is charged with possession of a handgun, possession of a firearm by a person under 21 and possession of a firearm on school property.  David Felsen, an attorney for Chen, stressed in court that the weapons were not found in his client’s bedroom, and noted his accomplishments before the allegations. “They were found in someone else’s room,” Felsen said. “Someone who is, we believe, authorized to have all these things.”

HONOR ROLL STUDENT
Felsen said Chen has received two college scholarship offers — from schools in Maryland and Florida — is on the honor roll, and “has never been in any trouble.” He also said his client does not appear to suffer from mental illness.

NO BAIL  
He ordered Chen to be held in jail without an opportunity to post bond.

TWO DIFFERENT EXPLANATIONS
For his part, Chen allegedly gave police two different explanations on Thursday after a school resource officer found a loaded Glock 9mm in his book bag. First, Chen said, he was going to do target practice after school, prosecutors said in Chen’s initial court appearance.  He “then told the police he had brought the gun to school for possible protection because students at the school had been harassing him and bullying him,” Lazzaro said.

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