Students at Euless Trinity High School have been given the all-clear to return to class after a threat reported Thursday morning prompted a school-wide evacuation.
The district tweeted Thursday morning that Euless police are investigating the threat and that all students were safe and had been evacuated to the football field. Sgt. Scott Peterson with the Euless Police Department said a male student, who was upset with a teacher, was overheard having a conversation about "wanting to blow up the school."
The conversation was reported to staff and a school resource officer reported the potential threat to Euless police, Peterson said.
"Obviously, you could see what happens when someone makes that kind of threat, how serious we take them," Peterson said.
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Once authorities arrived on campus, Peterson said they were alerted about the threat of “a bomb somewhere in the school in a backpack.” Authorities were able to contact the male student involved in the conversation.
In a tweet, Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD said "suspects" had been detained by police and were interviewed by police.
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"You had one student telling another student and it was overheard by a third student. At that time, we wanted to make sure we had all subjects involved in that conversation. So, that’s why you might have heard there might have been two or three subjects, we haven’t called them suspects that we wanted to talk to," Peterson clarified.
The school, meanwhile, was searched. HEB ISD asked parents to come to the campus to pick up students, but several rushed to the school wanting information.
"My son’s a senior, and we had made it this long. So, it was scary. I was dreading it, but I knew there was a potential that it could happen. Here we are," said Velinda Rubio, the mother of a Euless Trinity senior. "It was something I was really hoping wouldn’t happen, but I probably expected it. Like, how could I be exempt?"
Shyla Sakurai-Rilveria is the older sister of a Euless Trinity sophomore.
"She called me and let me know what was going on. I came down here, and she’s saying that nobody is able to leave. The parents are not able to get their kids," Sakurai-Rilveria said. "I have two younger kids that go to school right down the road from here. For it to be so close, it hits my heart, you know?"
The enrollment at the high school is about 2,600 and no students have been injured or harmed. The district said an ambulance was called for a person who needed assistance during the evacuation but that the call did not have any connection to the threat investigation.
The Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD said there was an unrelated event at Viridian Elementary school in Arlington where a SWAT team was in the area on a police matter. Arlington police have stationed a police officer with a drone in front of the school. HEB's Viridian Elementary was under secure/lockout and no one is allowed in or out. That incident was reported to be resolved shortly before noon and police have left the area.
More information was not immediately available.
