Boy, 17, arrested after threats to Heritage HS students, staff

A 17-year-old boy was arrested after Clark County sheriff’s deputies say he made threats of violence against students and faculty at Heritage High School.

The sheriff’s office said that deputies responded to a reported threat made via text to other individuals at about 11 p.m. Sunday.

The boy allegedly sent a series of text messages to students at Heritage, in which he told them to stay home because there would be violence at the school. He allegedly threatened to “shoot it up” and said there would be “death” for “25,” according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Clark County Juvenile Court.

With the help of the Evergreen School District Safety and Security Team, deputies investigated the threat and arrested the teen, according to the sheriff’s office.

He appeared Monday in juvenile court on suspicion of intimidating an administrator, teacher or student and felony harassment. He will be arraigned Nov. 23, court records show.

The boy was never a student at Heritage High School, nor is he a student within Evergreen Public Schools, school district spokeswoman Gail Spolar said. He has, however, attended other schools in the district in the past, Spolar said.