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Show 14-Year-Old Juvenile Charged In Alleged Gun Threat At EHS ESCALANTE Charges have been filed and addiuonal charges are pending against a 14-year-old Escalante juvenile who is alleged to have threatened to shoot a classmate Dec. 18 at Escalante High School. Garfield County Sheriff's Deputy Celeste Bernards, called by acting principal Susan Wilson to the school just after 9 a.m., confiscated an unloaded .38 five-shot five-shot Smith & Wesson "Chiefs Special" from a jacket in a vehicle parked at the school belonging to another juvenile. Also confiscated were 138 rounds of ammunition and 62 blanks. Bernards questioned Wilson, teacher Shelley Barney, custodian Jeris Liles and seven other juveniles. Witnesses say that the accused ninth grader and another youth argued over a computer game in a math class, leading to the threat by the accused in which he is alleged to have said that he had a "gun in his locker" and wouldn't "miss." The accused juvenile was sent home with a parent. Principal Myron Cottam, upon his return in the evening, suspended the youth from school until the situation is resolved. Bernards said additional charges are pending in an incident at the school at 4:30 p.m. the previous day in which Brian Roundy, 20, was allegedly threatened with a gun by the same juvenile. There were four juvenile witnesses to the indent, ind-ent, she said. ' |