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A 16-year-old high school student has been arrested in Indianapolis, after posting ominous threats on his Facebook page. The boy, a special-needs student at Warren Central High School, allegedly wrote that he would "shoot up the school" after the Martin Luther King Day holiday. "Your dreams will be broken by Warren Central, no more Nice Guy," reads one of the suspect's posts. "I mean what I said and you are going to die tomorrow, every last one of you," declares another.
It didn't take long for the posts to spread around the school, and, by Monday night, concerned parents had already notified the school's principal, Rich Shepler. Shepler then contacted Indianapolis police, who arrested the boy at his home on Tuesday, and immediately placed him in a juvenile detention center.
"How quickly the administration acted on this shows we take allegations of threats seriously and then move forward to investigate them, and then make sure law enforcement is involved," said Dennis Jarrett, a school spokesman. The county prosecutor said he cannot file felony charges against the boy, since the case falls outside of Indiana's felony intimidation law. He confirmed, however, that he's currently looking into what other charges the troubled student could face.
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Subscribe to commentsduckyJan 21st 2011 11:16AM
Obviously it's Sarah Palin's fault. Or at least Glenn Beck. They are the only causes of violent behavior in this country. Chris Matthews said so.
wowshamJan 21st 2011 11:38AM
@ducky while I would love nothing more than to agree with you (because those two people are not even worth the media's time) I have to say that you can't just go and blindly accuse media icons, or the media itself, for what some people end up doing. This is no better than blaming video games or violent movies. It's all in the parenting and it's all about actually taking responsibility for one's own actions. The last thing people should be doing these days is play the blame game.
hailyJan 21st 2011 7:31PM
@ducky
Interesting .... the Chris Matthews who show is called ...HARDBALL?
Bryan MerrittJan 21st 2011 11:39AM
We need to watch out for trouble like this and this kid needs to be evaluated by medical professionals before we have another tradgedty likeTuscon we just cant afford to let this kind of behavior slip through the cracks anymore. Kids need to learn too that you dont just pick up a gun and start shooying people every time things dont go just right in your life. Lets bring back moral values we had 50 years ago no one ever heard of a school shooting back then!!!!! it diddn't happen then.
JodiJan 21st 2011 11:58AM
@Bryan Merritt, I think Ducky was being sarcastic
TJJan 21st 2011 12:33PM
@Bryan Merritt The Bath School disaster is the name given to three bombings in Bath Township, Michigan, USA, on May 18, 1927, which killed 38 primary school children and 7 adults, and injured at least 58 people. Most of the victims were children in the second to sixth grades (7–12 years of age) attending the Bath Consolidated School. Their deaths constitute the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history.....Incidences like this happened 50 years ago you just didn't have the over whelming coverage from the media you have today.
brandyleigh0108Jan 21st 2011 12:56PM
@Bryan Merritt
this kind of thing did happen 50 years ago in texas at univeristy look it up
AuntDJan 21st 2011 12:27PM
I think people (children) just need God in there lives.
wgp516Jan 21st 2011 12:19PM
@AuntD
or at least a good a** whoopin'
MishJan 21st 2011 12:25PM
@AuntD
Seung-Hui Cho was a quiet Korean boy who disliked the hedonistic tendencies of his fellow students. He compared himself to Jesus and died for his cause. Unfortunately he shot and killed 30 people ( Including himself) at Virginia Tech in 2007. Finding God is nice but it doesn't stop killers.
exoticdoc2Jan 21st 2011 4:23PM
@AuntD. Obviously. As I have stated before, we teach children that they come from nothing and are going back to nothing, that there is no meaning or purpose to their existence, that there is no such thing as morality, as right and wrong, that killing is simply a re-scattering of random collections of atoms, and then we act surprised when things like this kid and Columbine occur. Ideas have consequences.
exoticdoc2Jan 21st 2011 8:52PM
@Mish. While Christians are not perfect and still subject to sin nature, TRULY finding God does change lives. What you are using here is known as an argument from hypocrisy. When someone claiming to be a Christian commits such an atrocity, they are going AGAINST the tenets of Christianity. Compare that, for instance, to Islam, where such killing is FOLLOWING the tenets of that religion. Therefore to judge a worldview, one must look at the actual tenets of the belief system and not the actions of a hypocrite.
brooksJan 21st 2011 12:32PM
absolutely no reason to let one off and the other go free! a threat is a threat. a good beating comes to mind for these kids that think say and do anything
Max SpencerJan 25th 2011 11:45AM
@TJ, listen up. 1927 was not fifty years ago. It was 84 years ago.
AuntDJan 21st 2011 12:47PM
How about an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I don't know why they ever stopped hangings in the middle of town. That sure would deter me from doing anything wrong. If you think about it , it is a whole hell of a lot cheaper.
texbabe80Jan 21st 2011 2:21PM
Here's the real question; Why aren't the ones who bullied these kids into snapping (making them vent and say things they would never mean) being brought up on charges? This is the problem! Instead of taking action on the cause of this kids actions, it's the victim that's being arrested (and bullied yet again). And as for the mother of the other kid that had to get therapy and is now home schooled, she needs to stop and think for a second. She needs to stand up to the powers that be who have caused this upside down justice instead of wanting "tit for tat" because her son was punished. It takes a village people, not village idiots!
AuntDJan 21st 2011 3:26PM
@texbabe80 It does take a village, but American's are not good reliable village people together unless America it's self is being threatened not just Americans. We care about our country not our people. That is what is terrible.
AuntDJan 21st 2011 6:40PM
@exoticdoc2 I haven't ever told my children that there is no purpose to their existence.
We tell them to be all you can be. You set your own destiny. When the end is here it is here, no one knows, yeah we may be turned back into nothing but we won't know it we will be dust. But right now we should try to do our best.
stvbrglJan 21st 2011 5:52PM
This story makes me think of this theory I have about media. All types. Particularly TV, news, things of that nature. I love TV. I watch alot. Alot of people do. It's information and entertainment. And, in my opinion, at a high rate of speed. There's no way u can calculate how this will effect all the varieties of personalities out there in the world. And I think alot more care should go into what we project and report and sensationalize. ON everything. Political speeches. Things like that. Not to be scared or censored or "politically correct", but to at least try to show a more sophisticated sense of what could and might be impressed upon people with varieties of mental understanding.
exoticdoc2Jan 21st 2011 8:56PM
@AuntD . I was not implying anything about your specific situation, the details of which I obviously could not know. I was referring to the atheistic/evolutionary ruling paradigm in schools today. All of the things I stated are follow naturally from an atheistic/evolutionary worldview.