Teen, student identified as suspects in loaded gun incident at Grapevine High
A Grapevine High School student and a teen who wasn’t a student were identified Monday as suspects who authorities say had a loaded pistol on campus.
The two — whose names were released because they are 17 years old — and two other juveniles, a boy and a girl under the age of 17, were taken into custody Friday after Grapevine police investigated a report of a student having a gun on campus.
The 17-year-old suspects were identified as Christopher Bishop and Tavian Price. After they were taken to the Grapevine Jail, the two were transferred to the Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth.
Price was not a student at Grapevine High, according to school officials.
Bishop and Price face charges of terroristic threat, possession of a firearm in a school zone, and possession of marijuana, police said.
The two younger juveniles face delinquent conduct charges in the case. Generally, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram does not identify juveniles unless they are charged as adults.
School officials received a report Friday afternoon that a student had a gun at Grapevine High and placed the campus on lockdown while police searched the building, a Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District spokeswoman said in an email. No students were injured in the incident and no shots were fired.
About 1:30 p.m. Friday, a student notified officials about a photo on the social media app Snapchat that showed a teen posing with the gun in his waistband while on campus, Grapevine police said in a news release. That teen was later identified as Price, according to school officials.
Officers quickly arrived after being alerted by the school, and within 30 minutes, they found the students in question and the gun, according to the release. The loaded pistol was in a student’s backpack, Grapevine police said.
“During this time, students were safely secured behind locked doors,” the school district’s statement said. “Police conducted a thorough sweep of the building and all individuals involved are detained.”
The lockdown at the high school lasted about an hour, according to the district’s tweets.
Timberline Elementary and Cross Timbers Middle School also were placed in precautionary lockouts due to their proximity to GHS, school officials said.
This report contains information from Star-Telegram archives.
This story was originally published December 16, 2019 at 11:41 AM.
