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The Velveteen Ocelot

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Thu Feb 22, 2018, 08:39 PM Feb 2018

Another threatened school shooting - juvenile arrested, no guns.

http://www.startribune.com/crisis-teams-police-greet-orono-students-thursday/474833303/

A male student was arrested about 4:15 p.m. pending felony charges of terroristic threats, Farniok said. A second male student is a “person of interest,” the chief said, but has not been arrested.

In the morning, a screenshot of the threat on Twitter made the rounds at school.

“Orono is not safe. Today at 12:00pm I will shoot up the school myself,” the tweet said, coming from a handle called “Anonymous Vector.”

Police determined that both threats originated from the high school, the chief said. The suspects were identified and both boys were found inside a classroom. Neither was armed and no guns have been found, the chief said.


This was in a very affluent suburb of Minneapolis. Sometimes kids can be stupid, and this one probably just wanted attention. He's being charged with a felony, not sure whether he'll be charged as an adult. At a minimum he'll be expelled and certainly will have fucked up his future. Why? Just to get the school locked down, everybody all wound up, just so he could watch the cops run around?
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Another threatened school shooting - juvenile arrested, no guns. (Original Post) The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 OP
And a couple more: The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #1
I hope they're all charged with felonies... Salviati Feb 2018 #2
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