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CBS News
16-05-2025
- CBS News
15-year-old accused of bringing loaded gun to Santa Rosa school campus
Some call for Santa Rosa school resource officers to be reinstated Some call for Santa Rosa school resource officers to be reinstated Some call for Santa Rosa school resource officers to be reinstated Police in Santa Rosa arrested a 15-year-old Thursday for allegedly bringing a loaded gun onto a school campus, the latest incident involving weapons at the city's schools. According to police, officers were called to the campus of Montgomery High School around 9:05 a.m. after school staff reported what was described as an "unwanted individual" on campus. Police said a Montgomery High student was seen near the school's flagpole by another boy who was not recognized as part of the school community. Both teens walked away after being approached by school administrators. The school's Student Safety Advisors attempted to contact the teens, which led the unidentified teen to leave campus. The teen was then seen running towards Montgomery Village. Arriving officers located the suspect attempting to hide behind a building and he was detained without incident. Police said a subsequent investigation revealed that the teen was a 15-year-old who is not enrolled in Santa Rosa City Schools. The teen was also carrying a loaded handgun, along with an additional loaded magazine inside his backpack. A handgun and other items that police said were brought by a 15-year-old to the campus of Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa on May 15, 2025. Santa Rosa Police Department No other weapons were located and no further threats to the campus were found, police said. The teen was booked into the Sonoma County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of multiple weapons offenses. He is accused of possession of a loaded handgun on a school campus, being a minor in possession of a handgun, possession of a concealed firearm and possession of an unregistered firearm. Police are not revealing the teen's identity due to his age. Following the incident, police said additional administrators from the district were deployed to the campus to provide support to students and staff. Thursday's incident is the latest in a string of violent incidents involving weapons at the city's high schools. At Elsie Allen High School, a 15-year-old student was stabbed during a fight on campus in February, which led to the arrest of another 15-year-old on suspicion of attempted murder. Another student at the school was arrested for allegedly bringing a loaded gun to campus in March. In 2023, a student at Montgomery High School was fatally stabbed by a classmate during an art class. The rise in violence prompted the district's Board of Education to approve a plan to bring back School Resource Officers from the Santa Rosa Police Department to campuses.
CBS News
25-02-2025
- CBS News
Students mourn after suspected fentanyl overdoses claim lives of Santa Rosa teens
Drug overdoses took a deadly toll in Santa Rosa over the weekend. Police are investigating the deaths of four young people, and the hospitalization of two more, to see if they are connected to a man arrested for selling narcotics, possibly laced with fentanyl. On Monday, a makeshift memorial was growing in front of Santa Rosa High School. A 16-year-old student named Gia died from a drug overdose on Saturday. Her friend, Sydney, said it's been heartbreaking. "I really read into it, and I had to go home. I crashed out, honestly, at work. I was crying," she said. "I just can't...I just don't understand why people who are one of the brightest, bubbly people have to be taken away." The same thing was happening at Montgomery High, where an 18-year-old named Logan also passed away. Police said both students were found Saturday night at a residence on Brookwood Drive, victims of a suspected fentanyl overdose, although officers said they may have thought they were ingesting cocaine. Earlier in the day, two other teenagers were hospitalized for suspected overdose. "The fentanyl's in everything," said Sydney. "It's even in weed. It's not just in cocaine, it's also in weed, it's in anything, honestly. And it's so scary." Police arrested a 21-year-old man named Ramon Nunez on Sunday, facing charges of second-degree homicide and furnishing narcotics to a minor. They found distinctive packaging on him, plastic baggies with black peace signs, possibly linking him to the two overdose deaths. Meanwhile, at Montgomery High, Principal April Santos said Logan was a good student with a great core group of friends. "It's devastating," said Santos. "I mean, there are no words to express the trauma that goes along with a loss like this, let alone for the family. My heart goes out to them because I can't imagine this loss of a child. But it's also the students here on campus. That's a lifelong friend, a peer they planned to walk across the stage with and do all those high school rituals and routines. So, it's hard. It's really, really hard." The district was offering extra grief counseling at both schools and a Black Labrador therapy dog named Gemma was on hand to help ease the trauma. The dog's handler, Terry Swehla, said Gemma can sense the students who are suffering in silence. "She will go to the person that doesn't want to talk, that is having a really hard time, and she's, like, 'I'm going to sit with you.' It's very powerful," Swhela told CBS News Bay Area. Back at Santa Rosa High, Sydney said she hopes it's a wake up call that her fellow students will take seriously. "Now, it's like you have to be cautious about everything, even smoking weed. You literally have to be cautious," she said. "You can' cannot trust any of these people who are selling. He needs to be kept locked up. He is a murderer." As of Monday, police had not officially released the names of the four students who suffered overdoses. Two other young people died in Santa Rosa over the weekend, one possibly from drugs, the other may be from natural causes. Police said they don't appear to be related to the other overdoses, but all four deaths are being investigated. In the meantime, they are encouraging parents to have open conversations with their children about the extreme risk of fentanyl-contaminated drugs.
