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Police arrested an Edinburg CISD student Thursday evening after receiving a report of a threat on social media.
“Edinburg CISD police immediately responded and the juvenile was taken into custody,” a statement read. “All campuses are secure at this time.”
Officials say the suspect, described as a juvenile male, texted something in a group chat that caused a person to become alarmed and notify law enforcement.
“They [police] went to the student’s house and spoke to him,” district spokeswoman Lisa Ayala-Hettler said. “He was in shock. He didn’t realize that anything was about to happen, certainly didn’t realize that a text message from a group chat was going to cause a problem.”
The student’s arrest brings the total number of individuals arrested for threatening a Rio Grande Valley school up to nine.
The mood among parents is tense, Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra said. Some parents don’t want to bring kids to school. Others are picking their children up from school.
Law enforcement is taking threats incredibly seriously.
“This deal with the incident at B.L. Garza (Middle School), it caused a lot of concern,” Guerra said. “Here you’ve got a 14-year-old kid — and my understanding is he was a good kid — make a bad decision. And that bad decision is causing a lot of problems.”
