Shaheed Whack
Police discovered a .38-caliber handgun in 18-year-old Shaheed Whack's bookbag when he went through the metal-detector at Fels High School's entrance on Langdon Street near Howell in Crescentville around 7:30 a.m., police said. When cops tried to apprehend him, he sprinted away, but officers caught him on Sanger Street near Langdon, about a block away.
No one was injured. Police recovered the firearm.
Whack is charged with violation of the Uniform Firearms Act, carrying a weapon on school property and related offenses.
"This incident demonstrates two things. One, there are too many guns out there that seem to be easily accessible to even students," Gallard said. "The other thing it demonstrates is that our security process is working, and our school police officers are making a difference out there and making sure these weapons don't get into our schools."
Gallard said investigators aren't yet sure of the student's intent.
seeing how getting a handgun permit in Philadelphia is near impossible..means that this gun was illegally obtained..
so another law wouldn't have stopped him.. but a police officer in the right place did..