Barbara Privett was told Summerlin was an ideal place to raise a family when she moved in seven years ago. 

Now, Privett is mourning the loss of her 15-year-old son, Christopher, an honor student who was killed Friday in a drive-by shooting near Palo Verde High School.

Las Vegas police arrested a 16-year-old Palo Verde sophomore early Saturday.

He was booked in the Clark County juvenile detention center on one charge of murder with a deadly weapon, three counts of attempted murder with a deadly weapon and four counts of firing a weapon from a moving vehicle.

The triggerman was traveling in a car with four other people at the time of the shooting: two female students at Palo Verde and two young men who never attended the school.

Privett said she believes she no longer can allow her 16-year-old son, Alex, to walk home from school.
   
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