9/11/23

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office received a report from staff at Canon Elementary School in Black Canyon City Thurday morning that a 14-year-old student made threats to shoot up the school.

Deputies met with school staff and learned that on September 2nd, the boy told his friend that he felt like shooting up the school. The boy lives with his grandmother, who has custody of him, and he had been absent from school all last week.

According to the friend, the boy gave a very detailed account of how and what he would do.

When deputies interviewed the boy, he admitted to making the threat. He is currently booked in the juvenile detention center on charges of threatening and making terroristic threats.