School threats

Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), Mar 11, 2001

Since Charles Andrew Williams allegedly killed two classmates and wounded 13 others in suburban San Diego, parents and educators have witnessed a series of school-related threats:

Fountain police arrested four area students for allegedly planting a fake bomb in Mesa Ridge High School and calling in a bomb threat.

Police arrested a 17-year-old student for bringing a loaded handgun into Albany (N.Y.) High School. Jesse Temple allegedly stole the .22-caliber gun from a locked box in his father's house, police said. Temple's father is a state trooper.

Several Bucks County, Pa., students were suspended from school after allegedly making violent threats.

Two children from Robert K. Shafer Middle School and one from Bensalem High School are accused of threatening to bring guns from home to shoot their classmates, Bensalem School District Superintendent James Watson Jr. said.

In nearby Bristol Township, police were investigating a reported threat at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School, where a child allegedly threatened to shoot a classmate.

Also in Pennsylvania, police in Upper Merion said a student has been arrested after confessing to taping a threatening note to a bathroom door inside the middle school. Police didn't release the suspect's name, age or gender.

A 13-year-old boy was charged with inducing panic after officials at a middle school in Cincinnati found a list of names of 22 students and school officials who were supposedly the targets of a nuclear bomb.

The eighth-grade student was released to the custody of his parents pending an appearance in juvenile court.

A student at Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School in Florida was suspended and recommended for expulsion after making threats against a teacher and classmates.

A call about a man with a rifle in a high school bathroom in Las Cruces, N.M., brought out 80-plus police officers and hundreds of panicked parents before authorities determined the call was a hoax, police said.