A 17-year-old student is facing charges after his loaded gun fell onto the gym floor at a Prince George’s County, Maryland, alternative school on Thursday morning, police said.
It happened at Non-Traditional Program 9-12 South school in Cheltenham, .
A “ghost gun”鈥� a gun without a serial number 鈥� fell out of the teenage boy’s waistband in the gym at around 9:15 a.m., police said.
The 9th grade student is being charged with having a handgun, having a dangerous weapon on school property, possession of a firearm by a minor and having a loaded handgun.
Run by Prince George’s County Public Schools, the alternative school is designed for students in 9th through 12th grades, . It used to be known as Croom Vocational.
