By Kristen Maloney and Kayla Baines
Baltimore Watchdog Staff Writers
A 25-year-old Lutherville man was released from the Baltimore County Detention Center on $100,000 bail after he was charged with injuring two high school students with a pellet gun on Sept. 5, police said.
Christopher Swayer-Schweigman of Breezy Tree Court was arrested on Thursday on a parole retake warrant for an unrelated case, police said. He has been charged with first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment in connection with the pellet gun incident, police said.
Baltimore County police said they were called to Dulaney High School in the 200 block of East Padonia Road in Lutherville just after 3 p.m. on Sept. 4 for a report that two tenth grade students, a boy and girl, were struck by BB gun pellets during cross country practice at the school’s football field, police said.
Baltimore County police identified Swayer-Schweigman as the suspect last Saturday. Detectives said they used a search and seizure warrant on Swayer-Schweigman’s apartment and found the BB gun. They said the investigation indicated that he had been shooting a BB gun from a window of his upper floor apartment, police said.
The two students who had been struck by the pellets were released to their parents, who later took them to a local hospital for treatment, police said.
The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services moved Swayer-Schweigman to the Maryland Reception Diagnostics and Classification Center in Baltimore on Thursday, where he is currently being held.