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Student Discovers
More Ammunition

By Scott MacKeen
Staff Writer
5/20/10
Police last week responded to a fourth case of ammunition found at Milton High School in two months.

A Milton High track meet in Wellesley on May 11 was delayed after a student discovered a single spent bullet on the floor of a bus transporting the team.

According to School Superintendent Mary Gormley, the student saw the bullet “rolling down the floor” of the bus around 3:15 p.m., just as it was set to depart for the track meet.

The student picked up the bullet and gave it to the track coach, who turned it over to school officials, Gormley said. Officers were called to the scene to search the bus and the students, but nothing else was found, she said.

Gormley said the bus transporting the track team serves several other communities, as well as Milton.

“It wasn’t a bus that had been to any Milton school that day,” she said.

The first incident of ammo being found occurred March 15, when a parent discovered a 12-gauge shotgun shell outside the main entrance. The school was placed in lockdown for several hours as officers searched the building, but no weapon was found.

On April 13, two students found several live handgun rounds in a stairwell at the high school, prompting a second lockdown. Again, nothing else was found. Two days later, a single bullet was found inside the school, leading authorities and school officials to hold a forum on public safety.

On April 16, information provided by parents led police to take into custody a 16-year-old Milton High student believed to be responsible for the April 13 incident. Police said he would be charged as a juvenile in Quincy District Court, on charges of ammunition possession, disturbance of the peace and disrupting a school assembly.

“This is never something the Milton public schools is going to get used to,” said Gormley, as she praised the response of the Police Department. “The investigations are still ongoing and we continue to respond to our tip line.”

Those with information can call police Lt. Detective William West at (617) 898-4804 or the main number at (617) 698-3800. The anonymous tip line is (617) 698-COPS (2677).