Thursday, May 11, 2023 | 2 a.m.
Anthony Boone said he found his passion again when he became a campus security monitor last fall at Jesse D. Scott Elementary School.
He came to the North Las Vegas school after nine years as a security monitor at a high school, and he finds the younger children — or “the babies,” as he calls them — to be a breath of fresh air.
But even though Boone said grade-schoolers have lower-stakes drama and are more respectful of authority, he’s the sole security monitor for all 650 of Scott’s students, and he can’t be everywhere at once.
And, notably, “We’re all not bulletproof,” he said.
It’s not a figure of speech, as campus security monitors were soberly reminded this week when a stray bullet from gunfire in the neighborhood struck one of their own at Ed Von Tobel Middle School. The monitor was wounded Monday while he was outside the building, and nobody else at the school was hurt.
Jessie Rios, 18, has been charged with four counts of attempted murder with intent to promote or assist a criminal gang, four counts of discharging a gun into an occupied structure, one count of battery with a deadly weapon and 15 counts of discharging a gun within a structure in a prohibited area, according to court and jail records.
Raises, minimum
staffing possible
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