Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse high school student is facing a misdemeanor weapon possession charge after police found the student with a pellet gun during school hours Monday. Nottingham High School student Jerome Bowens, 16, of 101 Fernwood Ave., is charged with possession of a weapon on school grounds. Police were called to the area of Meadowbrook Drive and Brookford...
Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse high school student is facing a misdemeanor weapon possession charge after police found the student with a pellet gun during school hours Monday.
Nottingham High School student Jerome Bowens, 16, of 101 Fernwood Ave., is charged with possession of a weapon on school grounds.
Police were called to the area of Meadowbrook Drive and Brookford Road about 9 a.m. after a witness reported seeing a male showing a handgun to several other males, Deputy Police Chief Joe Cecile said. Police found four males that fit the witness's description in the 3000 block of East Genesee Street and, when questioning them, found a gun in Bowens’ waistband, Cecile said.
The pellet gun was manufactured to resemble a .45-caliber Glock handgun, Cecile said.
Bowens admitted having the gun with him when he went to class at Nottingham earlier in the morning and had put the gun inside his locker before heading to class, Cecile said.