A Clark County School District truancy officer accused of child abuse and strangulation told police he had no choice but to grab the throat of a student who didn’t want to go to school, according to court documents.
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The words “Vegas Strong” are possibly the most meaningful on the arm sling worn by Karessa Royce, a survivor of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Route 91 Harvest festival on the Strip.
Desert Oasis High School senior Jake Schmidt didn’t plan on writing about what he did on Oct. 1. But in the days after escaping gunfire at the Route 91 Harvest festival, the essay was the only assignment he could sit down and do that week.
School district police say the officer, Scott Weissinger, 56, illegally entered a home and choked a student earlier this month.
Students at Green Valley High School have raised roughly $60,000 for the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund by selling Vegas Strong T-shirts to schools across the Clark County School District.
The unidentified 16-year-old boy faces charges of disturbance and battery of a public official after the incident, which marked the first time district police have used the weapon since they began carrying them in 2015.
Students and staff at Mesquite Middle School have raised over $4,500 to help the families of three victims of the Las Vegas Strip shooting who worked in education.
A 16-year-old female student is taken into custody after allegedly stabbing a 14-year-old classmate multiple times in the chest. The victim’s injuries do not appear to be life threatening.
After Sunday’s shooting on the Strip, up to 200 school psychologists, nurses, counselors and social workers responded to a request for assistance from local authorities. For some, the experience was “very raw … very emotional.”
UNLV assistant professor Tessa Winkelmann made comments to her History 407 class Thursday afternoon that put some of the blame for Sunday’s mass shooting on President Donald Trump.