Carson Valley Middle School student arrested for threatening to "shoot up the school"

A 12-year-old student was arrested on Thursday evening after making threats to bring a gun to Carson Valley Middle School on Friday February 17 and “shoot up the school.”

At 7:00 p.m. Thursday, February 16, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office received a call after a concerned parent intercepted the threatening message sent to their child. Deputies responded to the Indian Hills residence of the reporting party and met with the parent to examine the phone in which the threat was received.

Subsequent investigation by the responding deputies, the Douglas County Sheriff’s School Resource Officers, and the Douglas County School District resulted in the identification of the phone in which the threats were sent. Deputies with the assistance of the Douglas County Communications dispatchers traced that phone to a residence in Chichester Estates.

Deputies arrived at that residence at about 8:30 p.m. and located the juvenile that possessed the phone which has been used to send the threatening message. The juvenile admitted to sending the threat but claimed he was not serious. He was subsequently arrested for harassment and threatening to use a firearm at a school and turned over to the custody of Douglas County Juvenile Probation authorities.

The only weapons recovered at the suspect residence were a BB gun and two knives. There was no evidence the juvenile ever had a firearm or access to firearms.

This was an isolated incident that only involved the suspect and the other student he sent the threat to. The suspect juvenile has been taken into custody. There is no evidence or information to indicate any other threat or danger exists and school is in session as scheduled.