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October 31, 2024
Camas police confiscated two guns, including a semi-automatic firearm (above), from a parent’s truck outside Skyridge Middle School on Sept. 24, 2024, following reports that a child had used the guns to threaten their peers. (Photo courtesy of Camas Police Department)

Police report sheds light on gun incident outside Camas school

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.

October 10, 2024
John Svilarich (left) and his lawyer, Vancouver defense attorney Jon McMullen (right) appear in Judge John Fairgrieve’s Clark County Superior Court courtroom on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (Screenshot by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Svilarich makes first appearance in Superior Court

Camas City Councilman John Svilarich, 66, who is facing second-degree felony assault and reckless endangerment charges stemming from an Aug. 31 argument with a fisherman along the Washougal River Greenway trail in Camas, made his first appearance in Clark County Superior Court Wednesday, Oct. 2.

October 3, 2024
A sign welcomes visitors to Skyridge Middle School in Camas on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Washougal man arrested for unsafe gun storage

Camas police have referred an 11-year-old boy to Clark County’s juvenile prosecuting attorney following an incident involving “multiple firearms and a knife” outside Skyridge Middle School Tuesday, Sept. 24.