A Kenwood High School student has been charged as an adult after pointing a gun at a fellow student, Baltimore County police said.Police said the suspect is an 11th-grade student, and the victim is a 10th-grade student at Kenwood High School.The suspect Shane Kaleipaihala Pule Jr., 16, and the victim ride the same school bus, police said. They were both dropped off at 3:46 p.m. Friday at Elm Drive and Wilson Point Road in a neighborhood about three miles from school.Police said the victim approached Pule to confront him about a previous incident. Pule then produced a handgun from his backpack and pointed it at the victim, police said. The victim was not injured, police said."This is a very, very disturbing and a very serious incident. It's a .45-caliber handgun that was in a school, and we're not going to tolerate that kind of behavior," Baltimore County police spokesman Cpl. John Wachter said.Investigators recovered a .45-caliber handgun that police said Pule pointed at the victim.The weapon is also the focus of an ongoing school investigation.A Baltimore County school spokesperson told 11 News there will be consequences."Because he had the gun on the bus, the assumption is he had it at school, but we can't say that definitively yet," the spokesperson said.School officials could not say if he was back in class this week but said their policy dictates that anyone found with a gun in school, including the bus, would be suspended, pending additional consequences.Police said Pule has been charged as an adult with first-degree assault and related charges. He was released on $100,000 bail.WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Kate Amara contributed to this story.Get the WBAL-TV News App

A Kenwood High School student has been charged as an adult after pointing a gun at a fellow student, Baltimore County police said.

Police said the suspect is an 11th-grade student, and the victim is a 10th-grade student at Kenwood High School.


The suspect Shane Kaleipaihala Pule Jr., 16, and the victim ride the same school bus, police said. They were both dropped off at 3:46 p.m. Friday at Elm Drive and Wilson Point Road in a neighborhood about three miles from school.

Police said the victim approached Pule to confront him about a previous incident. Pule then produced a handgun from his backpack and pointed it at the victim, police said. The victim was not injured, police said.

"This is a very, very disturbing and a very serious incident. It's a .45-caliber handgun that was in a school, and we're not going to tolerate that kind of behavior," Baltimore County police spokesman Cpl. John Wachter said.

Investigators recovered a .45-caliber handgun that police said Pule pointed at the victim.

The weapon is also the focus of an ongoing school investigation.

A Baltimore County school spokesperson told 11 News there will be consequences.

"Because he had the gun on the bus, the assumption is he had it at school, but we can't say that definitively yet," the spokesperson said.

School officials could not say if he was back in class this week but said their policy dictates that anyone found with a gun in school, including the bus, would be suspended, pending additional consequences.

Police said Pule has been charged as an adult with first-degree assault and related charges. He was released on $100,000 bail.

WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Kate Amara contributed to this story.

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