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REGION Thursday, March 8, 2018 East Oregonian PENDLETON Page 3A UMATILLA Student, 15, in custody after threats Suspect eludes arrest after chase in stolen pickup High schooler on a mental health hold, receiving treatment East Oregonian By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian A 15-year-old male Pend- leton High School student was taken into custody Friday after he made shooting threats against schools, according to Pendleton Police Chief Stuart Roberts. Roberts said the juvenile verbally told a person he thought it would be “funny” if he shot up a school. Another person heard this story secondhand and reported it to police Friday evening. They started speaking with the 15-year-old boy that same night, who made state- ments “above and beyond” what was originally reported to police. Police also discov- ered that the juvenile did not have a gun in his possession, but there was a gun at his residence. Over the course of the investigation, police found that the teenager only refer- enced a generic school and never threatened a specific educational facility in Pend- leton. Police sent the student to St. Anthony Hospital, Pend- leton, for a mental evaluation that determined the boy was a threat to himself and others. Roberts said police placed a mental health hold on the student, allowing authorities to keep him in custody. If Staff photo by E.J. Harris A 15-year-old male Pendleton High School student was taken into custody Friday after he made threats about committing a school shooting. there were no beds available at a mental health facility, Roberts said police were prepared to arrest him for disorderly conduct and send him to a juvenile detention center in Walla Walla. Roberts said he was scheduled to be transported on Tuesday to a mental health facility outside the area for further treatment. Pendleton High School Principal Dan Greenough said he was in contact with police as the situation unfolded as a precautionary measure, but the school otherwise played no role in the investigation. With the recent shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people, Greenough said safety is at the forefront of people’s minds, but the local students and staff were calm this week. While the action took place off-campus, Greenough said high school staff are open to any safety concerns from students and the school promotes the Oregon State Police student tipline. There have been other security threats that have concerned local schools in recent years, but nothing as specific as a mass shooting. In 2012, Sunridge Middle School was shut down for a day when school staff received an anonymous message that said, “Don’t have school on Monday.” When authorities investi- gated, it turned out to be a collaborative prank call between a local boy and a student from Illinois. Last September, Pend- leton High School was put on a lockout after police received a report that a teen was threatening to shoot a student on the Pendleton River Parkway. Police located the offending teen, found no gun and were told the problem had been worked out. The lockout was lifted after 21 minutes and no one was charged for the incident. HERMISTON All four races for council seats contested Roy Barron files at last minute against newcomer Fitzgerald By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Hermiston will have four contested city council races during the May election, not three. After the filing deadline passed Tuesday night, a list provided by city hall after a public records request inadvertently left off a candidate who had turned in an application before the deadline that had not made its way to city recorder Lilly Alarcon-Strong yet. That candidate — Roy Barron — is running for Ward 2 against Shean Fitzgerald, a “semi-retired” construction engineer and husband of current city councilor Clara Beas Fitzgerald, who has decided not to run again. Barron moved to Herm- iston in 2015 after graduating from college and has worked for the county ever since, first in the district attorney’s office and then with drug court and now with the RISE program that provides mental health resources for students in area schools. He said he likes Hermiston and is committed to staying in the community for a while, and would like to help make decisions about important issues such as the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center, economic development and downtown revitalization. “Things are getting better and better here and I want to be a part of it,” he said. The addition of Barron means that all four races for city council this year will be competitive ones. In Ward 1, incumbent Lori Davis is being challenged by school board member Mark Gomolski and resident Jackie Linton, who grew up in Hermiston and returned in 2012 after retiring from the post office in Federal Way, Washington. Linton started attending city council meetings two years ago after getting involved in the renovation of a park on Beech Avenue, which was renamed Greenwood Park in honor of her grandfather Greenwood Woodrow Lister, who first established the park. She said she decided to run because she found the meetings interesting and thought she could make a positive difference in the community on the council. Gomolski previously ran for city council in 2016 and said if he wins this time he hopes that the school district or city council will be willing to change their simultaneous meeting times so that he — and other interested citizens — can attend both. Davis has been on the council since 2010. In Ward 3, Kyran Miller is challenging incumbent Jackie Myers, who is a licensed tax preparer and was first elected to the council in 1994. Miller, a retired funeral home director who moved to Hermiston from Michigan in 2016, said he doesn’t think the councilors are doing a bad job but wanted to throw his hat in the ring to provide a small business owner perspective. The race in Ward 4 is between incumbent Doug Smith, who was elected in 2015 and works as a general contractor after retiring from the Hermiston Police Depart- ment, and Michael Engel- brecht. Engelbrecht, when reached Wednesday, said he is running for city council because he wanted to be more involved in the community and was concerned about the mental health challenges facing youth and the opioid epidemic. Engelbrecht moved to Hermiston 12 years ago and has four children, including two still attending school in Hermiston. 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