Va. Teacher Accused of Taking Gun To School
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04-29-2005, 10:48 PM
Va. Teacher Accused of Taking Gun To School
Va. Teacher Accused of Taking Gun To School
Loaded Weapon Found in Locked Car
By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 27, 2005; Page B01
A Fairfax County high school teacher was charged yesterday with carrying a loaded handgun in his car while it was parked on school property.
Fairfax police said there was no evidence that Timothy D. Fudd, 31, a resource teacher at Westfield High School in Chantilly, intended to harm anyone. Police said his car was locked when the gun was found Monday morning.
"We found nothing to indicate that he had any plan of doing anything with the weapon," said Officer Melissa Katinsky, a police spokeswoman.
School officials said Fudd, who was hired in October, has been placed on administrative leave without pay while the case is pending. Police said he turned himself in to police and was released on his own recognizance.
Fudd, of Stuart Drive in the Falls Church section of Fairfax County, did not return messages left at his home yesterday.
Police said the handgun was found about 10 a.m. Monday after school officials received a tip that it was in Fudd's car. Katinsky said school officials questioned Fudd, who told them he had a gun in the car.
School officials then searched the car with Fudd's consent and removed the gun, Katinsky said. She said school officials later handed the weapon over to the school resource officer, who had been in court when the tip came in.
Katinsky said Fudd has a permit to carry a concealed weapon in the state. But under Virginia law, it is illegal to have a loaded weapon on school property in most cases. Exceptions are made, including for law enforcement officers.
Dana Cimino, president of the school's Parent Teacher Student Association, said school officials assured her, and the many worried parents who called, that no students or staff were threatened.
"Because it's still under investigation, there's not a lot of information they can share, other than to say no one was in any danger," Cimino said.
School spokesman Paul Regnier said Fudd was a substitute teacher in 2003 and was hired full time last fall. Resource teachers give extra help to individual students or small groups of children.
Illegal possession of a gun on school property is a felony that carries a penalty of one to five years in prison.
In January, a cafeteria worker at Bull Run Middle School in Prince William County, Naomi Lewis, was sentenced to three months in jail for possessing weapons on school property.
Lewis acknowledged locking two rifles, a shotgun and ammunition in her van last June after discovering that her son, then 12, had brought them to school. The boy retrieved them later that day and took them into the school, where he briefly held hostages.
He pleaded guilty to felony weapons and abduction charges and was released last week from a juvenile detention facility.
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i guess everyone has forgot about the gym teacher with an officer issue colt .45 that stopped a student with a gun in the parking lot osme years back
Loaded Weapon Found in Locked Car
By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 27, 2005; Page B01
A Fairfax County high school teacher was charged yesterday with carrying a loaded handgun in his car while it was parked on school property.
Fairfax police said there was no evidence that Timothy D. Fudd, 31, a resource teacher at Westfield High School in Chantilly, intended to harm anyone. Police said his car was locked when the gun was found Monday morning.
"We found nothing to indicate that he had any plan of doing anything with the weapon," said Officer Melissa Katinsky, a police spokeswoman.
School officials said Fudd, who was hired in October, has been placed on administrative leave without pay while the case is pending. Police said he turned himself in to police and was released on his own recognizance.
Fudd, of Stuart Drive in the Falls Church section of Fairfax County, did not return messages left at his home yesterday.
Police said the handgun was found about 10 a.m. Monday after school officials received a tip that it was in Fudd's car. Katinsky said school officials questioned Fudd, who told them he had a gun in the car.
School officials then searched the car with Fudd's consent and removed the gun, Katinsky said. She said school officials later handed the weapon over to the school resource officer, who had been in court when the tip came in.
Katinsky said Fudd has a permit to carry a concealed weapon in the state. But under Virginia law, it is illegal to have a loaded weapon on school property in most cases. Exceptions are made, including for law enforcement officers.
Dana Cimino, president of the school's Parent Teacher Student Association, said school officials assured her, and the many worried parents who called, that no students or staff were threatened.
"Because it's still under investigation, there's not a lot of information they can share, other than to say no one was in any danger," Cimino said.
School spokesman Paul Regnier said Fudd was a substitute teacher in 2003 and was hired full time last fall. Resource teachers give extra help to individual students or small groups of children.
Illegal possession of a gun on school property is a felony that carries a penalty of one to five years in prison.
In January, a cafeteria worker at Bull Run Middle School in Prince William County, Naomi Lewis, was sentenced to three months in jail for possessing weapons on school property.
Lewis acknowledged locking two rifles, a shotgun and ammunition in her van last June after discovering that her son, then 12, had brought them to school. The boy retrieved them later that day and took them into the school, where he briefly held hostages.
He pleaded guilty to felony weapons and abduction charges and was released last week from a juvenile detention facility.
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i guess everyone has forgot about the gym teacher with an officer issue colt .45 that stopped a student with a gun in the parking lot osme years back
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