Two students bring guns to South Baltimore school

It was a drill 10-year-old Brianna Malone had done before: huddle in the corner of her South Baltimore classroom with her teacher, her hands covering her head. But this time, Malone said, she heard sirens. She was scared. “There were these two kids that brung a gun to school and one of them shot the gun,” Brianna said. No one was hurt when a gun was fired in a school bathroom Wednesday morning in South Baltimore. Two students brought guns to Maree Garnett Farring Elementary/Middle School in Brooklyn on Wednesday, according to a statement from Baltimore City Public Schools. The students went to a restroom, where one gun was fired, the statement said. In a letter to parents, principal Benjamin Crandall said the gun was fired while the students were playing and “the weapons were not used to threaten anyone.” After hearing the shot, school staff went to the bathroom and found a shell casing. The school was placed on lockdown, according to the statement, and police identified and detained the two students involved, confiscating their guns. epidemic without collaboration,” Don Hibbert, the DEA special agent in charge of Baltimore’s field office, said at a news conference Wednesday morning announcing the program. In Baltimore, more than 3,200 people have died of opioid overdoses since 2007, including nearly 700 last year alone. While officials said the number of heroin and prescription opioid-related deaths has decreased, the number of deaths from fentanyl and carfentanil has increased. The campaign was previously introduced in Pittsburgh as a pilot program in 2015 while Baltimore interim police commissioner Gay Tuggle headed the DEA’s Philadelphia division. Tuggle praised the campaign Wednesday, saying while law enforcement has been working to disrupt supplies, he said more needs to be done to lessen demand.