Wanted gun found at Magdalena school

The Magdalena Marshal’s Office is investigating how a gun from a capital murder case in Houston found its way to Magdalena Schools. 

The Marshal’s Office was called to Magdalena Schools about 8 p.m. Nov. 29 for shots fired outside the cafeteria during a basketball game, according to police records. Marshals recovered a .45-caliber Ruger from a 14-year-old boy believed to have fired the gun. The teen was taken to the Bernalillo County Detention Center, and charges have been filed by the Juvenile Probation Office.

 Police later discovered the gun was evidence wanted in the Houston murder case. According to the police report, the boy said he got the gun from a friend in Socorro and took it to school “to be cool.” The boy also said he did not fire the weapon, and that he had smoked marijuana and taken a drug. 

The report states Magdalena Schools staff found a spent cartridge near the cafeteria entrance on Nov. 30 and called it in to the marshal. The cartridge matched the gun.

Wanted gun found at Magdalena school