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Northwood Student Charged with Gun Possession

For Immediate Release: Friday, December 5, 2025

Gaithersburg, MD - The Montgomery County Department of Police has arrested and charged a 17-year-old student with possession of a firearm on school property following an incident at Northwood High School. 

On Friday, December 5, 2025, at approximately 8:23 a.m., officers were dispatched to Northwood High School, located in the 11200 block of Old Georgetown Road, for the report of a student with a gun.

The initial call to the Emergency Communications Center indicated that two students had been involved in an altercation inside the school and that a witness reported to school staff that one of the students in the altercation was armed.

Responding officers conducted a search of 17-year-old Isaiah Gaunt and found a loaded 3D printed privately manufactured firearm (PMF) in Gaunt’s waistband. He was arrested without incident.

Gaunt is charged with possessing a firearm without a serial number, handgun on person, possession of a firearm by a minor and loaded handgun on person.

Gaunt, of Silver Spring, has been charged as an adult and was transported to the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit, where he awaits a bond hearing.

 

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Release ID: 25-565
Media Contact: S.D. Goff 
Categories: arrest , firearm , weapon-offense