COLORADO CITY — The Mohave County attorney’s office has filed a Justice Court complaint that identifies and charges the man who was armed with a bow and some arrows when he entered the Cottonwood Elementary School campus in Colorado City on Feb. 18.
No one was injured, and the incident ended when Jared Pipkin, 32, Colorado City, was tased by police and taken into custody. Pipkin is initially charged with criminal trespassing, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and interfering with an educational institution.
The school was placed in a precautionary lock down when it was reported that a subject in possession of a compound bow had jumped the fence to access the campus.
A Probable Cause statement said arriving Colorado City police observed the man later identified as Pipkin inside the locked gate.
“Defendant stated to law enforcement that he was just `going through’ said a statement of Probable Cause (PC) for charges. “When told to get on his knees by law enforcement (more than once), Defendant failed to comply.”
The PC statement said Pipkin was still carrying the bow when he walked to the parking lot where he was tased by officers, taken into custody and searched.
“On his person, law enforcement found a quiver housing 2 arrows, and a machete with sheath, a sharpened broadhead arrowhead in his pocket,” the statement said. “Upon a search of his person at the jail, law enforcement found a throwing star with sharpened edges on him, as well as a bag housing a usable amount of marijuana.”
Pipkin reportedly told officers he carried the bow and machete for self defense and that he took a shortcut through the campus on his way to the police department to retrieve a firearm from evidence.
Investigators reviewed surveillance system video from school cameras.
“The footage showed the defendant walk towards the school and then jump fences,” the PC statement said. “School officials indicate that the school had to go into lock down and students were scared from this event.”
Pipkin is held on $5,000 bond at the Adult Detention Facility in Kingman.
