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PLAZA, N.D. — One juvenile is accused of terrorizing after a threatening photo was distributed that warned students in Mountrail County not to come to school.
On Sunday, Nov. 27, the Ward County Sheriff’s Department received a report from the Lewis and Clark School District in Plaza, North Dakota, roughly 45 miles southwest of Minot, regarding a photo that had been distributed.
Authorities say that the photo showed a North Shore Plaza student who appeared to be holding a handgun with the caption “don’t come to school tomorrow.”
An investigation into the report ultimately found there was no immediate threat to public safety, and that the handgun was a BB gun, according to a Wednesday morning, Nov. 30, news release. The weapon has since been seized by authorities.
The juvenile is a resident of Ward County, and not of Mountrail County where the school is based. The Ward County Sheriff’s Department said the student was referred to North Dakota’s juvenile court system.
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The Lewis and Clark School District did not immediately return a call for comment.
The threat to North Shore Plaza came in a different fashion than a mid-October burst of at least seven hoax school shooting calls that scrambled authorities across North and South Dakota. No arrests have been made in connection to any of those hoaxes.
