Nevada student arrested for threatening to shoot up Clark County school: report

A Nevada teenager was arrested Wednesday for threatening to carry out a shooting at a high school, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

The 19-year-old man called a school district office in Clark County, Nev., and made the threat. Officers are declining to say which school the male referenced in his threat, or what school he attended.

“We take this very seriously,” school police Capt. Ken Young told the Review Journal. “This is not the time nor the place.”

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Students in the county had protested against gun violence on Wednesday, hours before the male student’s arrest, the Review Journal reported.

They walked out of classrooms for 17 minutes as part of national protests against gun violence following the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school that left 17 people dead last week.

Thousands of students across the country held similar protests on Wednesday, the one-week anniversary of the shooting.

Similar threats have been made at several high schools in the U.S. after the Florida shooting.

Student survivors of the shooting have emerged as vocal advocates for gun control since, demanding that both local and national lawmakers take action on guns.