A student at Chestatee High School (CHS) was arrested Thursday, September 19, for making threats against the school and teachers at the facility.
According to a news release from the Hall County Sheriff’s Office, the 15-year-old male student was reported to school officials by other students. They allegedly overheard the teen commenting at the bus stop Thursday morning that he was tired of school and wanted to “shoot up” the school and his teachers.
“The CHS school resource officer (SRO) traveled to the student’s home and seized a laptop and tablet that contained evidence corroborating the threat reports overheard by the other students,” says Hall County Sheriff’s Public Information Officer B.J. Willilams.
Williams says the accused teen was subsequently arrested and charged with making terroristic threats and disrupting school. Law enforcement transported him to the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center (RYDC).
More than a dozen area youth have been detained at RYDC on similar charges in multiple school threat incidents since the fatal shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder on September 4.
