Don Gardner is a multimedia journalist for the Macomb Daily. Click to contact the Sterling MS United Mental Health Team. Richard. Copyright IBTimes 2023. While we may never make sense of nor understand why this occurred, please know how deeply Mr. Plascencia cares for your students, their education, and all of Kraemer Middle School.. With the tragedy in Oxford, there have been several incidents throughout the region that relate to school security. They recovered a weapon during the arrest, the statement said. He had been with his girlfriend, with whom he was insanely in love, she said. Investigators believe he fatally shot himself before any students were on campus and the bulk of staffers arrived. I have no words to explain this to Richards little brother. Overall Score 77.37/100. (Callie Jones/Sterling Journal-Advocate), Sterling Middle School Co-Student Council Presidents Sarah Roys and Dakota Fickes give the welcoming address at the school's continuation night Wednesday, May 25, 2022. In a statement on Twitter on Thursday, the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) said it was investigating a threat made via a phone call at the Del Norte High School. He never had any problems.. These students have reached an important milestone in their education. 201 W. Holly Avenue. Anderson said the unnamed student allegedly drew a handgun from her backpack and shot three people one inside and two outside before a teacher disarmed her. The three victims were shot in their limbs and expected to survive, officials said at a news conference. CNNs Jamiel Lynch and Raja Razek contributed to this report. The school serves as a K-12 for just under 1,800 students from across the Denver . Park View students said the slaying is particularly painful for a community that has dealt with other deaths in recent years. Danny spent much of his time going back and forth between school and his job at Benihana at the Dulles Town Center, where he worked in the evenings and on weekends. Click to request middle school grade expungment. The sheriffs office made changes in an attempt to improve its de-escalation training in response to the shooting, she said. A freshman high schooler [lost] his life this morning please a prayer for his family && fellow classmates #ripdannycenteno #PVHS, tweeted DeJon Griffin, who coaches the schools freshman volleyball team. A 14-year-old boy was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly making threats to a Boulder school. 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When she's not writing, she disappears into the mountains to hike and fish. It was a pill, let me go! Ward said as he was pushed to the ground, according to the video. Hernndez joined the Post in 2014 to cover politics and government on the local desk after spending four years as a breaking news and crime reporter at the Orlando Sentinel. BOISE, Idaho (AP) A sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot and wounded two students and a custodian and then was disarmed by a teacher Thursday, authorities said. Phone: (571) 434-4520 . Sterling Middle School 1177 Pawnee Ave Sterling, CO 80751 Phone: (970)522-1041 Fax: (970)522-0209 nelsons@re1valleyschools.org Schools RE-1 Valley School District Continue to work hard and strive for excellence as you move on to Sterling High School and beyond, he told the students, presenting the class of 2026 to SHS Principal Cindy Lystad. Fax: (703) 444-7492 . Neighbor Maricela Alfaro said she was in her kitchen making breakfast for her youngest child when she heard three gunshots outside her condominium. Then as the seventh grade band performed Kings Court again, the new high schoolers walked out the doors and onto the next stop in their educational journey. "Thank you to our law enforcement agencies and school leaders for their efforts in responding to the incident. Updated The shooting victims were struck in their extremities and are expected to survive, but may require surgery, officials said. Danny was detained there, but Baires said that authorities contacted him and that Danny was flown to Northern Virginia to stay with him and his wife. GAO combined three categories from the K-12 School Shooting Database into an . Students need to be aware that these actions can result in school expulsion and in recent cases prosecution through the courts. Rigby Middle School in Jefferson County, Idaho. Principal Colleen O'Neill. Disclaimer Text goes in this spot. Multiple threats across different schools in the United States have been reported since Tuesdays heinous shooting at the Robb Elementary School. All rights reserved. Dannys uncle, Porfirio Baires, who welcomed the teenager into his Sterling townhouse, said the boys parents sent him north to the Texas border in 2013 at the age of 15. Ward then put something in his mouth, causing McWhorter to grab him by the jacket and push him to the ground, the video shows. The female teen's threat, found on a bathroom wall at the. Also, Sgt. School Board Members Tiffany Polifko, Broad Run District Brenda Sheridan, Sterling DistrictDenise Corbo, At-Large, College Achievement & Multicultural Program for Unique Students. Community activist Bruce Wilson said Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson died at the hospital.. Neither the Sterling Heights police nor the Utica Community Schools revealed whether the suspect was a junior high student or a high school student, only saying that the student is a juvenile. Copyright 2023 IBTimes LLC. The suspected shooter, also 12, was arrested and charged with murder and other firearm charges in the shooting at Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville, according to the Greenville County Sheriffs Office. Ward had not committed a crime and was answering the deputies questions when McWhorter took him to the ground, the lawsuit states. The lockdowns were lifted at around 2 p.m. Thursday after police confirmed that there was no evidence of actual physical threats to the affected school campuses. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. My heart is broken, Wards mother, Kristy Ward Stamp, said in a statement. Remind your student of the importance of notifying a responsible adult if they become aware of any security concerns or rumors regarding school safety.. Emma Brown is an investigative reporter and author of To Raise a Boy. Magna adipiscing vel eu semper ridiculus sodales a augue adipiscing nisl aliquam vestibulum dis consectetur parturient. Sterling Middle School eighth graders wait to be seated at the start of the school's continuation night Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Blackboard Web Community Manager Privacy Policy (Updated). Later, authorities learned that a student had shot another student and that the students knew each other, the sheriffs office said. After the school day ended, Park View students described remaining in their first period classes all day with little sense as to what was happening as word of the shooting spread through social media and text messages. Jacob was hit and killed by a bus outside Franklin Middle School last week. I am staying updated on the situation.". Were different, were the sheriffs office, McWhorter said. With the tragedy in Oxford, there have been several incidents throughout the region that relate to school security. A school resource officer at Tanglewood Middle School requested emergency backup just before 12:30 p.m., when deputies said a 12-year-old student was shot. An assistant principal at a California middle school fatally shot himself in an apparent suicide on campus, officials said. We will aggressively pursue actions against any student found to be involved in making threatening comments, Beebe said in her letter. Disclaimer Text goes in this spot. The 131 Sterling Middle School students who will be moving on to high school next year were recognized at the schools continuation night on Wednesday. After a performance of We Are Young by the eighth grade band, under the direction of Lamorie, Assistant Principal William Shaver recognized students academic achievements. The teen allegedly posted on social media about shooting and killing students at an unspecified school, investigators revealed. Following the performance, Principal Bob Hall applauded all of the music students for sticking with it through their eighth grade year despite enduring a lot during the COVID-19 pandemic. McWhorter told a fellow sheriffs deputy that Ward headbutted my nose and then tried grabbing at my stuff, body camera footage shows. It hurts us so bad, because he was just a boy, Baires said. Next, the eighth grade concert choir performed A Million Dreams, under the direction Lamorie. This was nothing short of state-sanctioned murder of a citizen who should not have been even arrested, let alone killed in broad daylight.. Richard Wards death is a profound injustice an unarmed, cooperative citizen shot and killed in front of his mother by a Pueblo County sheriffs deputy, said Darold Killmer, the Ward familys attorney. Our family has been ripped apart.. On March 24, 1998, a school shooting occurred at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro. The Trojans outfought and outshot their rival, the No. Ward and McWhorter briefly struggled on the ground before McWhorter shot Ward three times in the chest at point-blank range, the video shows. The shooting was a result of a month-long argument between two students. SDPD Lt. Adam Sharki said any threat is taken very seriously, especially after what just happened, referring to Tuesdays mass shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and 2 teachers dead. Wounded: On October 21, 2013, Jose Reyes, a 12-year-old student in seventh grade, opened fire with a handgun at the basketball courts of Sparks Middle School. He then recognized parents and SMS faculty for all theyve done to help the eighth graders get to this point and shared a few words of advice with the students. (Callie Jones/Sterling . Students need to be aware that these actions can result in school expulsion and in recent cases prosecution through the courts.. A Warner Bros. The SDPD has since said that the community should expect an extra police presence in the area Friday following the threat. The sheriff's office said that it has . Please take this as an opportunity to reinforce with your son or daughter that any threat to school security, even if it is a prank, will not be tolerated. Tim Fitzsimons is a reporter for NBC News. Magna adipiscing vel eu semper ridiculus sodales a augue adipiscing nisl aliquam vestibulum dis consectetur parturient. Loudoun sheriffs officials said they believe that the assailants knew Danny but did not offer details. While we may never make sense of or understand why this occurred, we do know that turning to each other during this time for support is essential, Elsasser said in a statement. 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