Breaking News! Eagle Pass Winn High School Student Detained for Making “Terroristic Threat” of Shooting at School Campus
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2022
Eagle Pass Independent School District Superintendent Samuel Mijares announced at a press conference on Friday, November 4, 2022, at 10:15 a.m. that a student at C. C. Winn High School had been detained earlier this morning by the Eagle Pass Independent School District Police Department and local law enforcement agencies for allegedly making a terroristic threat to another student last night at approximately 11:30 p.m. through Snap Chat that a school shooting was going to occur at Winn High School campus on November 4.
Mijares stated the school district police department was contacted by a concerned citizen and an immediate investigation of the alleged shooting threat was opened by the district police department and local law enforcement agencies.
Mijares noted that the alleged incident was merely a threat and that no school shooting occurred at the Winn High School nor at any district school campus. Mijares added that the Eagle Pass Independent School District takes all threats seriously and is committed to swiftly investigating and detaining any alleged responsible individuals for making any threats against the school district or any of its campuses.
Eagle Pass Independent School District Police Department Chief Crestino Ynosencio stated that a person of interest, a 16 year old Winn High School student, had been detained this morning (November 4) and charged with making a terroristic threat. Police Chief Ynoscencio stated that the school district takes all threats seriously and is prepared to investigate and file charges against any individual making such threats against the district or any of its campuses.
Eagle Pass ISD Police Chief Ynosencio added that the alleged suspect detained has been placed at a juvenile detention facility to await legal juvenile proceedings in state court. Ynosencio noted that the Eagle Pass ISD Police Department collaborated with local law enforcement agencies, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Eagle Pass and Maverick County citizens have privately expressed concerns that their greatest fear is that a mass shooting incident such as in Uvalde, Texas or El Paso, Texas might potentially occur in this community since Eagle Pass has received extensive attention by state and national politicians and news media concerning the current immigration crisis in the United States.
