Freshman student charged, released on bond
USC police found five handguns in a Maxcy College dorm room Tuesday afternoon.
A first-year student, Trevor Scott Stephens, 17, was arrested in connection with the incident and charged with possession of firearms on school property.
Officers arrived at Maxcy after a resident of the building approached a resident mentor about the guns at around 4:30 p.m.
When they approached Stephens and asked to search his room, he briefly hesitated and said he only had brass knuckles inside.
Police found those brass knuckles and five firearms, including a Smith and Wesson 38, a Taurus 38, a .22-caliber GSG 1911, a 9mm Highpoint and a 9 mm Glock 17, according to an incident report.
The guns were found in a green bag in Stephens’s closet, the report says; he later gave officers a written confession.
Stephens was detained in the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center and released on $20,000 bond, according to the university release. He has been banned from campus, according to a Carolina Alert sent to students Wednesday afternoon.
“There is no ongoing threat right now,” said Capt. Eric Grabski, a spokesman for the Department of Law Enforcement and Safety.
Police are still investigating, Grabski said, and further charges may be filed; when that could happen is not yet clear, he said.