CHS student arrested on terroristic threat charge

A Clarendon High School student was arrested Wednesday, February 28, after he threatened to shoot a classmate, according to Donley County Sheriff Butch Blackburn.

Avyen Chance Allen, age 17, was charged with Terroristic Threat, a Class B misdemeanor, and was still in jail Thursday morning.

Blackburn said Allen and a female student were talking in class when he threatened to go get a gun and shoot the girl. She did not say anything to school officials, but called her mother to come get her, the sheriff said. After the mother learned what happened, she called the school, and Clarendon CISD officials contacted the sheriff immediately.

Blackburn happened to be on the elementary campus when the call came in, and went immediately to the high school to find the subject and learned that he had skipped his last period class. Allen was soon located and stopped for a traffic violation on North SH 70 by Deputy Brian Stevens while the sheriff was securing a warrant. Allen was then arrested and did not have a gun in his possession at the time, Blackburn said.

The sheriff praised the school for acting immediately when they learned of the threat.

“They did a good job,” he said.