On Campus

Students find handgun in college classroom

25-year-old charged

Students in a classroom at Durham College in Oshawa, Ont. found a loaded .45 calibre handgun inside a backpack left behind by a fellow student just before noon on Tuesday, say Durham Regional Police. Later in the day, 25-year-old student Dominic Chong of Sullivan Drive in Ajax was charged with several weapons offences. The gun was previously reported stolen from Toronto.

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