Documents obtained from the Camas Police Department are shedding light on what happened outside Camas’ Skyridge Middle School on Sept. 24, after an 11-year-old youth football player allegedly threatened other children with firearms stored in his father’s truck.
Camas police officer Steven Jeffries reported in a probable cause document that the juveniles had finished their Clark County Youth Football league practice around 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24, and “while some of the kids had already left the Skyridge practice field, others — including the juvenile accused of threatening peers with his father’s guns — were “involved in a game of ‘tag’ where they would run after and tap each other, sometimes hard.”
In a follow-up interview with one of the juveniles who witnessed the events, Jeffries said the children were playing tag while their coaches were having a meeting away from the field.
That is when one of the boys, an 11-year-old who police later referred to the Clark County juvenile prosecuting attorney for possible charges, allegedly became upset that other boys were bullying him.
Several witnesses said they saw the juvenile suspect go to his father’s truck parked nearby and, according to the probably cause documents, “grab a pistol out of the center console, (take it) out of a holster and point the barrel of the pistol toward (other children) while saying loud enough for (witnesses) to hear, ‘If you get any closer, I will shoot you.’”