Posts Tagged ‘school safety’
Student kills teacher, classmate in Slovak high school knife attack
A student killed a female teacher and classmate with a knife and injured another classmate at a high school in northern Slovakia on Thursday, officials said. Several emergency crews were dispatched to the school in Spisska Stara Ves, where two people were discovered dead and a third was taken to hospital with medium-severity injuries, emergency…
Read MoreTeen convicted of threatening violence at Montgomery County high school
A Maryland teen who authorities say wrote 129 pages about a school shooting was convicted Wednesday of threatening mass violence. Alex Ye, 19, of Rockville, was found guilty on one count of threat of mass violence after a two-day bench trial in December. Prosecutors described Ye’s long document as a chilling plan to kill students…
Read MoreTeacher Is Arrested After Threat Closes Schools in Montclair, N.J.
Public schools in Montclair, N.J., were closed on Monday after a teacher at an elementary school threatened its principal on social media, the police said. Several hours later, the school district announced that the potential threat had been “neutralized.” The teacher, Amir Doctry, was arrested in Philadelphia on Monday morning and charged with making terroristic…
Read More8 students injured in hammer attack at univ. campus in Tokyo suburbs
Eight students were injured Friday in a hammer attack at a university campus in the suburbs of Tokyo, according to police. An emergency call was made around 3:45 p.m., reporting an attack by a student at Hosei University’s Tama Campus in Machida. The assailant, a 22-year-old South Korean woman, was subdued and arrested, according to…
Read MoreTwo 19-year-olds arrested for terroristic threats against school; bail set at combined $1M
Two 19-year-olds have been arrested after allegedly sending terroristic threats to a school, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Garrett Swayne, 19, and Francy Brisma, 19, are facing charges of terroristic threats with intent. State police report that the social media threats were directed toward a school on Jan. 8. Investigators determined that the threats came…
Read MoreOfficial Says Wisconsin Shooter Was New Student At Christian School Where Her Victims Had Deep Ties
The Wisconsin 15-year-old who shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student Monday was only in her first semester at the school but seemed to be settling in, a school official said Thursday as families of the victims remembered them as people of faith who had deep connections within the Christian school. Abundant Life…
Read MoreCroatian police say a 7-year-old girl died, 6 people wounded in school knife attack
A 7-year-old girl died and a teacher and five other students were wounded in a knife attack at a school in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, on Friday, police said. They said the attack happened at 9:50 a.m. at the Precko Elementary School in the neighborhood of the same name. They described the attacker as a…
Read MoreWisconsin School Shooter Had 2 Guns And Got Messages From Man Accused Of Plotting His Own Attack
The shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin brought two guns to the school and was in contact with a man in California whom authorities say was planning to attack a government building, according to authorities and court documents that became public Wednesday. Police were still investigating why the…
Read More15-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shoots Teacher And Teenager At A Christian School In Wisconsin
A 15-year-old student opened fire inside a study hall at a small Christian school in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and teenager and prompting a swarm of police officers responding to a second grader’s 911 call. The girl also wounded six others in Monday’s shooting at Abundant Life Christian School, including two students who were in…
Read MoreGunman May Have Targeted California Religious School In Shooting That Wounded 2 Kindergarteners
Two children were in “extremely critical condition” after being shot at a tiny religious K-8 school in Northern California and the gunman died at the scene, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot, police said. The gunman may have targeted the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists in Palermo on Wednesday because of its religious affiliation, but…
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