EDUCATION + SCHOOLS

UPDATE: 14-year-old arrested in connection to Entheos Academy shooting threat

Dec 19, 2022, 8:32 AM | Updated: 4:39 pm

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The Magna campus of Entheos Academy is pictured. (Scott Taylor via Entheos Academy Facebook(

KEARNS, Utah — A 14-year-old male is being charged with making a shooting threat to Entheos Academy.

The academy called off Monday classes at both its campuses after school officials learned of a threat made on social media.

In a Facebook post made Monday morning, administrators said a parent reported a shooting threat on Snapchat. The threat was towards the school’s Kearns campus.

The school also said authorities were investigating a possible second threat on Instagram. This possible threat singled out one student at the school’s Magna campus.

According to Lt. Shane Manwaring with the Unified Police Department, police tracked down the 14-year-old suspect through his “digital footprint.”

“We actually located him pretty fast,” he says. “You just can’t really make threats … you leave a digital footprint.”

Along with this, Manwaring says the teen never went to the school and had no means to carry out the threat, meaning he had no access weapons.

The suspect has been interviewed by police and he is now with his parents, Manwaring says.

The school has not yet announced what classes will look like on Tuesday.

Entheos Academy advised that anyone wanting to make a report can do so via the SafeUT app, contacting the police or contacting school administrators.

The school also provided resources for families talking to their children about school threats.

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UPDATE: 14-year-old arrested in connection to Entheos Academy shooting threat