Hiawatha Valley Education District. 1410 Bundy Boulevard. Headquarters for services to 12 outlying school districts whose budgets can’t provide state-required services for students with special needs.
Threat: “Have gun, will travel” — and blow up your house
WINONA, Minn. – A 14-year-old boy threatened to shoot a fellow student at the Hiawatha Valley Education District’s special-ed schooling center in the Far East End industrial park. The encounter was in a bathroom about 12:05 p.m. A witness told police he was talking with a 18-year-old when the 14-year-old burst in. The 14-year-old student was quoted:
“I’ll come to your house in SWAT gear, shoot it up and shoot you and bring C4 if I need to.”
By the time police arrived the 14-year-old had boarded a bus for home. As he was en route home, police telephoned his mother: She said the boy had access neither to a firearms nor to C4, which is an explosive plasticizer. Even so, police said a charge of a terroristic threat was a possibility. As best as police could determine, there was a history of bullying between the youths. One is from Lewiston, the other from Rushford. The incident was at the Hiawatha Valley building at 1410 Bundy Boulevard.
Hiawatha Ed profile
The Hiawatha Valley Education District provides specialized education services for 12 school districts in Winona, Houston and Wabasha counties. It has 75 employees, some of whom travel to member districts. Also, many students are driven to the Bundy Boulevard facility in Winona for schooling. The district plans to acquire the Winona Mall shopping center and centralize its operations there.