ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A teen accused of threatening a school crossing guard will remain locked up. The Bernalillo County District Attorney says the 17-year-old parked over a crosswalk while picking up his sibling from Jackson Middle School on Wednesday.
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The guard approached the teen to tell him he couldn’t stay there. That’s when the DA says the teen pointed a gun at the guard and said he would kill him. “You just can’t park there! So he continued into the racial slurs, and so what you… and then he pulled a gun out and stuck it about four or five inches from the bridge of my nose,” said Byron Powdrell, crossing guard.
Police reportedly found a gun under the front seat of the car. On Friday, a judge granted prosecutors’ request to keep the teen in custody until his trial…