Student, Woman In Altercation Arrested With Gun At School: Police

COLUMBIA, MD — A Long Reach High School student and a 20-year-old woman were arrested at the high school Monday for having a loaded gun in the school parking lot. The student was being dropped off for class when a domestic incident broke out, according to the Howard County Police Department.

Katherine Mejia, 20, of Echols Avenue in Glenarden called 911 at 9:25 a.m. and reported that Rashad Rudder-Watkins, 18, of Beechfield Avenue in Elkridge, refused to get out of her car and that he had a gun. A Howard County patrol officer who was inside the school at the time responding to an unrelated runaway call headed to the parking lot.

The patrol officer was joined by other police officers and found an illegal loaded firearm in the glovebox known as a "ghost gun," which is an untraceable weapon with no serial number, assembled with separate components that can be purchased on the Internet.

Both Rudder-Watkins and Mejia were arrested and face multiple firearms violations, including possession of a gun on school property. No one else was injured in the incident.