Posts Tagged ‘school safety’
FBI investigating school swatting calls in Philadelphia region
The FBI is investigating so-called “swatting calls” that targeted elementary and high schools across our region on Monday. The schools spanned from Philadelphia to Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks and Berks counties. Investigators say they do not have any information indicating there was a credible threat, but it was a scare for students and parents. Tricia Steigerwalt,…
Read MoreStabbing at Washington state high school wounds 6, including suspect, police say
A student at a Tacoma high school was booked on five counts of first-degree assault after four students and an adult security guard were wounded in a stabbing at the school Thursday, police said. The Tacoma Fire Department took five people to hospitals from Foss High School, with four of the patients in critical condition…
Read MoreBrown University Gunman Planned Attack for Years, F.B.I. Says
The man who killed two Brown University students and an M.I.T. professor last December plotted the crimes over the course of three years, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday. The shooter, Claudio Neves Valente, 48, had been socially isolated, making it hard to track his intentions, investigators said in a report released on Wednesday that…
Read More15-year-old charged with uttering threats linked to Vancouver police investigation
A charge of uttering threats has been laid against a 15-year-old in connection with a Vancouver police investigation into disturbing comments allegedly made about a Vancouver school. Global News has learned someone who knows the teen called the police after seeing extremely concerning text messages. The teen was apprehended under the Mental Health Act and…
Read MoreSubstitute teacher, 19, accused of making online threats toward Loudoun County high school
A substitute teacher in northern Virginia is facing charges after authorities said they made threats online involving a high school in Loudoun County. Hayden Dollery, 19, of Chantilly, was taken into custody on April 20, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. Dollery faces a charge of threats of bodily injury. The sheriff’s office said…
Read MoreEx-Duke Health employee charged with threats of mass violence against university
A former Duke Health employee was arrested this weekend for allegedly making threats of mass violence against Duke University. Duke University police issued a warrant for 31-year-old Nathaniel Jerrell’s arrest more than five months ago after he threatened his former coworkers and workplace in online posts in October with “bringing a gun or planting a…
Read MoreTurkish police detain 162 people over online posts about school shootings
Turkish police have detained 162 people accused of posting controversial content online about two deadly school shootings that took place this week. Justice Minister Akın Gürlek accused accounts of sharing footage of the incidents, spreading content capable of creating fear and praising crime. At least 16 people were injured in a shooting at a high…
Read More‘No one would be spared’: Teenage girl’s diary laid out school shooting plan later thwarted by police
Diary entries written by an eighth grader in Oneida County lay out the plans she developed for a mass shooting in her middle school’s cafeteria. The 14-year-old has been charged for a threat against Clinton Middle School, about 9 miles from Utica. The plot was thwarted by the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office after an uninvolved…
Read MoreTurkish school shooter used image referencing 2014 U.S. mass killer, police say
A 14-year-old student who shot at least nine people dead, including eight of his fellow pupils, at a school in southeastern Turkey had used an image referencing a 2014 U.S. mass killer, Elliot Rodger, on his WhatsApp profile, Turkish police said on Thursday. In Turkey’s second school shooting in just two days, the middle school…
Read MoreWhitman High student faces charges after arson, graffiti incidents at Bethesda elementary school
A 16-year-old Walt Whitman High School student was charged Wednesday with vandalism, arson and threats of mass violence after he allegedly lit a shed on fire at another Bethesda school and later vandalized a fence there with graffiti referencing a 2012 mass school shooting, Montgomery County police said Wednesday in a press release. The teen,…
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