Woman sentenced to 11 years for threatening to ‘shoot up’ California middle school

A -year-old Menifee resident has been sentenced to years in prison after making several threats against a Murrieta middle school Julianna Ortgega was sentenced Thursday July by Riverside Superior Court Judge Judith C Clark She pleaded guilty May to one count of felony criminal threats Related Articles Silicon Valley Pain Index finds poverty inequality continue to plague South Bay California states sue Trump over billion in tuition funds Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly Instruction Department employees Heinous heartbreaking and expensive California schools face avalanche of sex abuse alleges South Bay schools shape AI policies to catch up to tech-savvy students Ortgega was arrested at her home Aug on suspicion of making threats against Thompson Middle School in Murrieta At that time police published that they detected no weapons at Ortgega s home but she was on parole for making criminal threats against a different school in the area Ortgega was accused of making numerous threats against Thompson Middle School by email and through social media the day before her arrest She threatened in her words to shoot up the school and warned of the school getting blasted Murrieta police Lt Jeremy Durrant has commented Ortgega has no known connection to the middle school and her motive for making the threats is unknown declared Roy Monge director of menace management and employee benefits for the Murrieta Valley Unified School District The district takes such threats seriously and works closely with the Murrieta Police Department Monge explained The district s risk-management plan accounts for immediate threats but also looks at impacts these threats can have on the district Monge announced Murrieta Valley Unified has counselors available and wants the area to know that when incidents like this occur the district takes action Part of it is just whenever a situation happens like this we follow through and make sure that there is society trust he revealed We have no control over what people are going to say or do We can just react to it and have plans in place