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Sixteen-Year-Old Charged with Gun Possession After Assault on Wayne Avenue
Gaithersburg, Maryland –Montgomery County Department of Police – 3rd District officers have arrested and charged a 16-year-old with gun possession following an assault that led to a double stabbing on Wayne Avenue in Silver Spring. On Monday, February 9, 2026, at approximately...
Sixteen-Year-Old Charged with Gun Possession After Assault on Wayne Avenue
Gaithersburg, Maryland –Montgomery County Department of Police – 3rd District officers have arrested and charged a 16-year-old with gun possession following an assault that led to a double stabbing on Wayne Avenue in Silver Spring. On Monday, February 9, 2026, at approximately 6 p.m., 3rd District officers responded to the intersection of Wayne Avenue and Ramsey Avenue […]
Major Crimes Detectives Arrest Suspect in 2023 Homicide
Gaithersburg, MD – A 22-year-old has been arrested and charged in connection with the July 9, 2023 death of a Gaithersburg man in Seneca Creek in Germantown. Tips from the pubic identified the victim as 45-year-old Jose Israel Centeno Velasquez of Gaithersburg. On July 9, 2023, Montgomery County Department of Police 1st District officers and Maryland […]
Third Coconspirator in Fatal Benghazi Attacks in U.S. Custody, Charged in Washington D.C. with Murder and Terrorism Counts
Zubayar Al-Bakoush, an armed coconspirator in the 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, was charged in an eight-count indictment unsealed today in U.S. District Court on multiple terrorism and murder counts.
Summary of Events: Wayne Avenue Assault
The following is a brief summary of events regarding a large fight that occurred at the intersection of Wayne Avenue and Ramsey Avenue. On Monday, February 9, 2026, at approximately 6:00 p.m., MCPD responded to a report of an assault in progress involving more than 20 juveniles.
Thomas S. Wootton High School Shooting
Gaithersburg, MD — A 16-year-old student is in custody following a shooting inside Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville on Tuesday afternoon. At approximately 2:15 p.m., officers from the Montgomery County Department of Police 1st District and the Rockville City Police Department responded to the school for the report of a shooting. The response also […]
Summary of Events: Thomas J. Wootton High School Shooting
The following is a brief summary of events regarding a shooting at Thomas J. Wootton High School. At approximately 2:15 p.m., Montgomery County Department of Police 1st District officers and Rockville City Police were dispatched the school for a reported shooting. The first arriving officers located in a hallway inside of the school. The student victi… […]
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