Posts Tagged ‘school safety’
Florida police arrest student after video threat to ‘shoot up’ a high school
Florida police have arrested a high school student after video emerged of a potential gunman threatening to open fire at a school. The Sanford Police Department said it received an anonymous tip on Saturday “regarding a video of an unknown male threatening to shoot up Seminole High School.” “The video pictured the subject with multiple…
Read More15-year-old faces attempted murder charge after explosive device found in backpack
A 15-year-old boy is being held on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder after an explosive device found in his backpack prompted an evacuation of Ponderosa High School on Tuesday. On Thursday, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said that the teenage suspect, who was not named, is being held with no bond on suspicion of: Just…
Read MoreJuvenile taken into custody after explosive device in student’s backpack prompted evacuation, sheriff’s office says
A juvenile male was taken into custody after an explosive device found in his backpack prompted an evacuation of Ponderosa High School, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday night. An explosive device found inside a student’s backpack prompted the evacuation at the school in Parker Tuesday morning, the sheriff’s office said. Just before 9:30…
Read MoreTeenager plotted mass shooting at Edinburgh school
A teenager obsessed by murder wanted to carry out a mass shooting at his own school in Edinburgh. A court heard how the boy “idolised” the killers behind the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in the United States in 1999, which saw 12 students and a teacher murdered. He repeatedly spoke about doing the…
Read MorePolice: Teenage girls planned shooting and pipe bomb attack at Memorial High School in Spring Branch ISD
Police are investigating after two students were accused of threatening to place pipe bombs in a Houston high school and shoot peers, according to police. The two teenage girls were in custody. According to authorities, one of the suspects, a Willis High School student, is currently being held on unrelated charges, while the second suspect,…
Read MoreColumbine High School shooting survivor dies decades after tragedy
While Columbine High School shooting survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter’s life was shaped by tragedy, the tenacious woman worked hard to ensure tragedy did not define her. Hochhalter was 17 when her life shifted from teen clarinet player to among the most injured survivors of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. The high school junior was…
Read MoreOn eve of MSU mass shooting anniversary, former student sues university
A former Michigan State University student who was in Room 114 at Berkey Hall when a gunman shot several classmates, two fatally, nearly two years ago sued the university Wednesday. The complaint, filed one day before the second anniversary of the mass shooting that killed three students and wounded five others on Feb. 13, 2023,…
Read More18-year-old charged after allegedly planning mass shooting at Indiana High School
An 18-year-old from Mooresville is facing charges for allegedly planning a mass school shooting at Mooresville High School. The Mooresville Metropolitan Police Department received information around 7 p.m. Feb. 11 from the FBI about someone who was potentially planning the school shooting on Feb. 14, 2025. During the department’s investigation, officers identified the person of…
Read MoreMcMinn High School students arrested for conspiracy to commit act of terrorism
Two students face charges after a possible planned attack on other McMinn High School students on Thursday, February 6. Sheriff Joe Guy posted to Facebook that he received a phone call from a parent of one of the teens around 10:30pm that evening, who had “discovered something disturbing”. “The parent was very concerned over a…
Read MoreFBI investigates Wando student’s reported online ties to ISIS sympathizers
A Wando High School student was questioned on Jan. 8 after FBI agents said approximately two years worth of ISIS propaganda research and communication was discovered, according to a police report. The incident report states that FBI agents came to the school to meet with SRO’s after the student was reported looking at the terrorist…
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