Weapons, shootings on the rise in Md.

Published September 6, 2006 12:00am ET



The recent arrest of a 15-year-old Columbia youth on charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder in two different shootings is not surprising.

“What you?re seeing is what we?re seeing around the country,” said Kenneth Trump, the president of Cleveland-based consulting firm National School Safety and Security Services.

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