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The Clark County School District will create a school safety advisory committee to address issues raised by the fatal shooting of a student and an alarming number of gun seizures on campuses just one month into the school year.
The announcement Wednesday came as police confirmed the 18-year- old male killed in a shooting Tuesday afternoon on the Canyon Springs High School campus was a student at the school.
A Gofundme page started Wednesday identified the student as Dalvin Brown. Money is being raised to help pay for his memorial service, the page said.
He was shot near the school’s northwest property line, behind the fencing of a baseball field, North Las Vegas police said.
In addition to the shooting, there have been six cases in which guns were seized on or near school property this school year. The most recent seizure occurred just hours before Superintendent Jesus Jara’s news conference; a 16-year-old male student at Desert Rose High School in North Las Vegas was found with a
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“As a father, I know how scary it can be sending your kids to school with these headlines,” Jara said at the conference, which officials had planned before the shooting occurred Tuesday. “But I can promise that we will continue to do everything in our power to ensure that our schools are safe and our students have a peace of mind that they deserve every single day.”
The advisory group — which will consist of parents, students, teachers and community members — will deliver recommendations to the superintendent by Dec. 1. Those recommendations will then go to the School Board.
School police also announced they will assign an officer to the Metropolitan Police Department’s gang unit major case team.
But police couldn’t say for certain whether any of the cases involved gangs.
“I want to assure everybody that we will do whatever it takes as a school police department to work collaboratively with our local law enforcement partners,” said Chief James Ketsaa.
All the guns confiscated this year were involved in another crime or were not tracked properly by their owners, Ketsaa said.
Hundreds of calls
The attack at Canyon Springs on Wednesday was the first on-campus shooting at a Clark County school since 1990, when a student-on-student shooting at Eldorado High School left one teen dead.
Acting Chief Justin Roberts said at a Tuesday afternoon news briefing outside Canyon Springs that officers began receiving “hundreds” of calls at 2:39 p.m. reporting shots fired near the school at 350 E. Alexander Road.
Brown died after being transported to University Medical Center.
Police learned Brown and an unknown person had an altercation prior to the shooting, a North Las Vegas release said. That unknown person escaped before police arrived.
Detectives hadn’t determined a motive for the shooting as of Wednesday morning, the release Police, acting on a tip from a student to administrators at Centennial High School, pull a 16-year-old male student out of class and find a loaded 9 mm handgun in his backpack. A Sierra Vista High School student is arrested with a loaded .45-caliber handgun in his possession. A police spokesman said the student was on probation and was found to be in possession of the gun during a random search by state parole authorities. A 16-year-old male student with a loaded 9 mm handgun is arrested at Desert Rose High School on a charge of possession of a dangerous weapon on school property. A female family member is arrested after pulling a loaded 9 mm handgun to break up an after-school fight between students on a street next to Chaparral High School. Jondese Quarles, 25, faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and a related charge.
said. Police reiterated that the shooting appeared targeted and wasn’t a random act of violence.
Officials urge the public to report anything suspicious through SafeVoice, an anonymous tip reporting A loaded .40-caliber handgun is seized from a 15-year-old male student at Mohave High School near the school’s football field shortly after school let out. Staff at Green Valley High School notice a 16-year-old male student acting strangely on the first day of school, and police arrest him after discovering he was carrying a loaded 9 mm handgun.
system that launched statewide this school year. The public can call the hotline at 833-216-SAFE, visit safevoicenv.org or download the free app.
The district has received 730 tips through the system since Aug. 1.