Student's Threatening Text Prompts Heightened Alert at Osborne High
A 16-year-old student was charged with disrupting a public school and two counts of making terroristic threats.
A 16-year-old Osborne High student allegedly threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend, her current boyfriend and himself, prompting school administrators to put the school on a heightened state of alert for about 45 minutes late Wednesday morning.
The student spelled out the threat in a text to his ex-girlfriend's friend sometime Wednesday morning, Cobb County Police Department spokesman Officer Mike Bowman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Officials thought the incident was serious enough to call police to the scene to look for the student. Officers found him at his home and took him into custody. He was charged with disrupting a public school and two counts of making terroristic threats, according to the AJC report.
Because the suspect, the ex-girlfriend and the current boyfriend are juveniles, their identities will not be released, Bowman said.
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Pam J
5:06 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
I'm not in favor of students being able to use their cell phones while at school, but I guess it paid off this time. Obviously this boy did not realize that making threats can land you in a boatload of trouble. The AJC said he was caught as he was leaving his house. Wonder where he was going.
Randy Whitehead
8:57 am on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
I miss the good old days when a teenager could be upset and lovesick without political correctness dictating that every time one of them says something stupid the entire world should be immediately bubble-wrapped.
stephen m george jr mpa
5:06 am on Saturday, May 18, 2013
The more fundamental core issue is ...what's wrong with this girl that would make a guy like that attractive to her ...?