A juvenile was arrested Monday, Sept. 14, after school resource officers found a loaded gun near the Richard Wright School for Journalism and Media Arts in Southwest D.C.

Officers responded to the charter school just before 6 p.m. for a report of found property, according to WUSA9, which cited a Metropolitan Police Department incident report. School resource officers stopped a person of interest and recovered eight rounds of ammunition and a large-capacity ammunition feeding device from the juvenile, WUSA9 reported, citing the arrest report.

The juvenile was charged with carrying a pistol without a license and other firearm-related offenses. Police transferred the juvenile to Juvenile Processing without incident.

Whether the person arrested was a student at the school remains unclear. WUSA9 reported it had reached out to Richard Wright Public Charter School for comment and had not received a response.

Accounts differ on where the weapon was found. WUSA9 described the gun as found outside the school. The DMV Live, an independent news feed, reported on X that the gun was found inside a locker on the 400 block of School Street SW and that D.C. Forensic Services responded to process the weapon. MPD has not released a standalone press statement clarifying the location.

Richard Wright PCS serves roughly 300 students in grades 8 through 12. The school is led by Executive Director Dr. Marco Clark.

The arrest comes less than three weeks after D.C. launched its first centralized School Safety Office for the 2026-2027 school year. That office connects public charter schools, D.C. Public Schools and private schools with safety agencies and resources. Phillip Copeland, the office's executive director, told WUSA9 in an Aug. 28 report on the new office that schools can now coordinate directly when incidents arise.

"If they need coordination with the neighboring school who may be DCPS or charter, they talk directly to each other," Copeland said in the Aug. 28 interview.

A 2024 report from the Deputy Mayor of Education found that D.C. schools reported 7,757 violent incidents in the 2022-2023 school year.

No court date or follow-up briefing has been announced in connection with the arrest.