Posts Tagged ‘school safety’
Weapons detection system alerts staff to loaded handgun at Joppatowne High School
A 15-year-old Harford County student was arrested after the sheriff’s office said the district’s weapons detection system alerted staff to a loaded handgun at Joppatowne High School, where a student shot and killed a classmate just over two years ago. The freshman was taken into custody Thursday after a School Safety Liaison (SSL) alerted school…
Read More3 girls charged with making violent threats against school in Addison, Illinois
Three girls have been charged with threatening a school in the west Chicago suburb of Addison, with two of them making a video depicting a shooting at the school, authorities announced Wednesday. DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Addison police Chief Roy Selvik announced that a 14-year-old girl from Lombard and two 12-year-old girls…
Read MoreArgentine teenager planning school shooting with ChatGPT raided after FBI alert
The Argentine Federal Police (PFA, in Spanish) raided the home of a teenager in Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province, on Thursday after the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alerted them that he had been discussing murdering his classmates with the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. Alejandro de Mena, legal assistant at the Quilmes Juvenile Criminal…
Read MoreHigh school stabbing in Croatia leaves 2 wounded and attacker detained
A student in a high school in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, on Friday stabbed and wounded another student and a janitor, authorities said. The attacker was detained. Croatia’s Ministry of Education said he used a “sharp object” in the attack. The student who was attacked received surgery for multiple stab wounds but was out of danger…
Read MoreSuspect arrested for planned “mass stabbing” at CA high school
Fresno police arrested a suspect who allegedly planned to commit a mass stabbing at Duncan Polytechnical High School on Sep. 11. Police said a student potentially stopped the attack by speaking up. The big picture: The student who spoke up about the potential attack sent a message to friends. “There is going to be a…
Read MoreAffidavit: North Side man accused of using AI program to plan mass shooting at elementary school
San Antonio police arrested a North Side man after he allegedly used artificial intelligence to plan a shooting at a North East ISD elementary school. Records show Nathaniel Michael Carrasco, 22, was arrested Aug. 29 and charged with making a terroristic threat, which is considered a third-degree felony. A judge set his bond at $250,000.…
Read MoreOkaloosa County deputies arrest teenage girl after school threat post
A teenage girl was arrested in Okaloosa County on Sunday after investigators traced a threatening social media post that referenced local schools. Investigators determined the teen did not appear to have access to weapons, and the threat was not deemed credible, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said its school resource…
Read MoreA year after Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, documents detail swift response, little on motive
Documents released a year after the deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church and school provide a detailed account of the swift and widespread response by law enforcement officers — who arrived within minutes and began triaging injured students. But the nearly 1,500 photos and hundreds of pages cataloging witness interviews, evidence and officer accounts…
Read MoreExplosive devices found in a SoCal boy’s home after school threat, officials say
A Santa Barbara County sheriff’s bomb squad was dispatched to the home of a youth after threats were made to a school, according to authorities. Two explosive devices were recovered from the boy’s home Saturday, and officials said the “potential school threat” had been thwarted. Raquel Zick, a spokesperson for the county Sheriff’s Office, declined…
Read MoreNorway teen arrested over alleged axe attack plot against preschool
A 16-year-old boy is in custody in Norway on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack with an axe and a knife on a preschool. The teenage boy had developed a concrete plan for when and how he would attack a specific preschool, report Aftenposten and NRK. According to an arrest warrant, the boy is suspected…
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