13-Year-Old Arrested After School Threat Lockdown

SONOMA COUNTY, CA — A 13-year-old boy was arrested after investigators said he threatened to return to J.X. Wilson Elementary School and stab someone during an encounter that sent children into a classroom and put the campus on lockdown.

Officers arrested the boy at a Santa Rosa home about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, the Santa Rosa Police Department said.

Police withheld his name and additional information because he is a juvenile.

The incident began at about 1:24 p.m. Tuesday at J.X. Wilson Elementary School, 246 Brittain Lane. About 15 children were participating in a summer program there, police said.

Police said the boy is suspected of approaching the group on the school's athletic fields, where he appeared to try to provoke a confrontation.

A program supervisor asked him to leave, and a school official who also confronted him noticed what appeared to be the handle seen on small kitchen knifes protruding from his pants pocket, according to police

The school official told the boy to leave and said someone was calling 911. Police said, according to the supervisors, the boy then threatened to return to the campus and stab someone before fleeing on a black electric scooter. Police said he never took out a knife.

The school official moved the children into a classroom and called 911. The school locked down the campus.

Santa Rosa police officers searched the campus and surrounding neighborhood, and officers deployed a drone to check rooftops and other areas they could not easily reach.

Police did not find the suspect during the initial search, and school officials lifted the lockdown after about an hour.

Information from residents led to the boy's arrest.