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Whagado incident puts Rimrock High School on lockdown

Whagado incident puts Rimrock High School on lockdown

Sedona AZ (December 20, 2012) – On December 19, 2012, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived at Rimrock High School, 3705 Beaver Creek Road, Rimrock, Arizona regarding a disorderly male refusing to leave. Office staff told deputies that the man, later identified 22-year-old Jeremy Whagado, came into the office requesting to remove two students, but could not provide their names or any legal connection to students in the school.

Whagado was directed to leave and refused. He demanded that office staff provide him with a list of students names to assist with the request. As he became more agitated, he mentioned the recent Connecticut school shooting, but did not make any direct threats.

The staff was not clear as to the context Whagado placed on the Connecticut incident, but were obviously very concerned about his behavior, instituted a school lockdown and called YCSO.

A few minutes later, Whagado left the school grounds in a very disgruntled state.

Deputies arrived in the area within minutes and located Whagado near a gas station just south of the school. Whagado was detained and appeared disoriented and confused. Due to the threatening nature of the incident, deputies arrested Whagado for Disorderly Conduct and Disruption of a School – both misdemeanors. No weapons were found in his possession.

Whagado did acknowledge prior mental health issues to deputies.

Whagado was booked at the Camp Verde Detention Center and remains in-custody on a $7500 bond pending a January 2013 court date. Since the tragic incident in Newtown, Connecticut, YCSO deputies and supervisors have made direct contact with all school administrators in their patrol areas to share concerns while providing enhanced and ongoing law enforcement visibility throughout the school day.

Citizens can contact the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office with information or questions at 928-771-3260 or the YCSO website www.ycsoaz.gov .

5 Comments

  1. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office is to be commended for such a quick response to a problem that could have easily escalated. It was wise for the school staff to institute an immediate school lockdown. At the time of the incident no one knew that the suspect did not carry any weapons.

    As a result of the recent Connecticut school shooting, much has been said about increased gun control as a solution to these senseless shootings. Is that going to be the real solution to these tragic occurrences?

    I firmly believe that we should also look at doing more to bring out increased awareness to those afflicted with mental illness. Giving them medication without any counseling is only a band-aid approach to a far major problem that eventually ends up hurting a lot of innocent people, especially children. We need to be more proactive and look for signs that would give us a red flag that something is not right.

    Gun control, unfortunately, is not an adequate answer to this major problem…people can use other weapons like knives, screwdrivers, pencils, ball points, etc….how do we enforce that? We need to deal with the root of the problem, which is far more than providing stricter laws on the purchase of guns. Nancy Lanza, who bought those weapons was a responsible individual, but Adam, somehow, when he was unable to make his own purchases, got access to the storage in the basement …and the rest is history.

  2. See no mention of a commitment hearing. When is it scheduled? The young fellow admitted to needing help.

  3. Laurie says:

    gun control doesnt keep anybody from killing anybody & according to news and tv Ct has strictest gun controls!!!! What should’ve been done??? put him in institutions. not hand him to dogoods saying come & hang out here in our neighborhood schools & we won’t say you’re crazy because if you’re in regular schools you will “be normalized” by association!!! ask any special ed teacher. for once don’t tell them what they know isn’t what they know.

  4. Abe K says:

    LaPierre also said, “We have a mental health system in this country that has completely and totally collapsed. We have no national database of these lunatics” and complained that de-institutionalization of the mentally ill had put too many dangerous people on the streets of America. “We have a completely cracked mentally ill system that’s got these monsters walking the streets,” LaPierre said.

    But Sen. Lindsey Graham, R- S.C., said killers such as Lanza were “non-traditional criminals…people who are not wired right for some reason. And I don’t know if there’s anything Lindsey Graham can do in the Senate to stop mass murder from somebody that’s hell bent on doing crazy things” — apart from better security in schools. The South Carolina Republican also called for getting “mass murders off the streets before they act, by better mental health detection.”

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