Restraining order filed against would-be shooter

Teen wrote plan for school attack

Arestraining order was filed this week against the Santa Fe teenager who earlier this year admitted writing a note that detailed plans for a school shooting.

Former Santa Fe High student Aaron Encinias — who is about 15 years old — was listed in a complaint and restraining order request filed last week.

A local artist filed the complaint on behalf of someone with the same last name, apparently her daughter.

The complaint says the daughter was on Encinias’ “kill list” of teachers and students at Santa Fe High.

“Aaron Encinias planned a mass shooting and listed (the daughter) as one of the targets,” the complaint states. “On Sept. 11, 2018, Aaron Encinias harassed (the child) verbally,” it says.

The Journal is not publishing the name of the woman or the child because of the nature of Encinias’ shooting threat detailed in police reports last year.

In February, Encinias received one year of probation after admitting the misdemeanor of interfering with the educational process. He apologized during a District Court hearing.

Encinias was arrested in November after police linked him to a note — which included the target list and a map of the school — to the then-freshman.

Police originally charged him with conspiracy to engage in terrorist activity.

In addition to probation, Encinias also received a longterm suspension from school, meaning he cannot return to public school until January.

Following the discovery of the note, Encinias initially told police it was intended to be a joke. But he later told officers that he would have gone through with the shooting, but he didn’t have a gun, according to police. He also told police that he was bullied by people on the list.

The new filing requests that Encinias be required to stay at least 100 feet from the daughter. It does not provide details of the alleged verbal harassment. Messages to the mother were not returned earlier this week.

Charges against two other students said to have known about the note and not reported it were dropped.

Encinias’ attorney during the proceedings earlier this year, Tom Clark, declined to comment on the latest filing because he did not know about it.

“(The) family hasn’t contacted me, probation hasn’t contacted me, I don’t know anything,” said Clark.

It was not immediately clear whether verbal abuse of a person on Encinias’ target list would be a violation of his terms of probation.