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Charlotte middle schooler arrested after making violent school threat on Instagram
This latest arrest is part of a troubling trend in threats of mass violence against schools across the country, often causing police to show up heavily armed to schools thinking there is a mass shooter, when there really isn't.
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By Blair Shiff, WCNC News/WRAL
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina middle schooler was arrested after making threats against their school on social media.
The student, an eighth grader, posted on Instagram, a threat of "mass violence" against Southwest Middle School in Charlotte.
Police questioned the student in their home and they admitted to making the threat.
"Making a school threat is not a prank, it's a crime," the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department wrote on Twitter.
The student did not have any weapons at their home, authorities said.
This latest arrest is part of a troubling trend in threats of mass violence against schools across the country, often causing police to show up heavily armed to schools thinking there is a mass shooter, when there really isn't.
More than a dozen schools in Minnesota were targeted by reports of a false shooter or mass-casualty event, as reported by the Washington Post.
Similar to what happened here in North Carolina, a Texas teenager was arrested for calling in a "joke" mass violence threat.
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