{"id":290702,"date":"2025-10-10T01:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290702\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:32:09","slug":"lacoste-elementary-parents-react-to-shooting-to-wednesday-night-shooting-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290702\/","title":{"rendered":"LaCoste Elementary parents react to shooting to Wednesday night shooting threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA COSTE, TX \u2014 A 10-year-old boy is back in his parents’ custody after he was arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot up an elementary school in La Coste.<\/p>\n

Parents say they’re glad he was caught before the worst happened.<\/p>\n

LaCoste Elementary school parents received an email from Principal Oscar Vega Thursday morning saying a student threatened to shoot up the school.”<\/p>\n

“We know news like this can be unsettling. Please talk with your children about reporting concerns to a trusted adult and remind them that making threats of any kind can lead to serious disciplinary and legal consequences,” the letter said.<\/p>\n

“As a mom, my heart sunk,” Melissa Garcia said. Her son is a student at the school. “I felt confused, lost, scared, but what made me feel a little bit better was that they had the kid in custody.”<\/p>\n

RELATED: 10-year-old student in custody after threat to ‘shoot up’ LaCoste Elementary, police say<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Investigators with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office say they got a call around 9:30pm Wednesday from a mother saying one of her child’s friends sent a message in a group chat where he threatened to bring a gun to school, and allegedly sent the group a picture.<\/p>\n

“Obviously something’s wrong… whether it’s here at school or at home,” said Katherine Stuart. Her kids also go to LaCoste Elementary. “That’s not okay for a kid to feel like they need to come and show their anger, you know, and hurt innocent people.”<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office immediately contacted Medina Valley ISD Police who identified and arrested the child. Officers searched his home and didn’t find any weapons.<\/p>\n

He now faces charges for falsely alarming and reporting an emergency.<\/p>\n

BCSO Deputies and Medina ISD police are leading the investigation. La Coste police chief Richard Gonzales said his officers assisted by providing extra security on campus Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Parents we spoke to say that security wasn’t what they expected.<\/p>\n

“That was one of the main reasons why I brought my kid to school today, was they said there was going to be extra police presence,” Garcia said. “Maybe that was the one reason why a lot of kids came to school was just that extra security that didn’t happen.”<\/p>\n

We reached out to the MVISD communications team who said there were extra officers at drop-off Thursday morning. There weren’t many at pick-up in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

“I’m concerned as a parent, because it’s happening a lot nowadays with the school shootings and like, the threats,” Stuart said.<\/p>\n

“You hear about it, you see it, you know — especially what happened in Uvalde, but you just never think you’d be in it,” Garcia said. “It’s mind blowing.”<\/p>\n

MVISD Police Chief Ellis Powell wasn’t available for an on-camera interview. He sent us a statement, urging parents to remind their children about the consequences of making threats of any kind.<\/p>\n

The student who made the threat is now waiting to see a Bexar County juvenile judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA COSTE, TX \u2014 A 10-year-old boy is back in his parents’ custody after he was arrested for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":290703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7288,7361,5022,149127,9475,7207,7202,7203,4995,149126,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-290702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bexar-county","10":"tag-custody","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-lacoste-elementary","13":"tag-parents","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-security","18":"tag-shooting-threat","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115347295037198708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}