WAXHAW, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — More charges could be coming against more people related to school threats earlier this week in Union County. Deputies say a 15-year-old Cuthbertson High School student made the threats because she didn’t want to go to the Waxhaw school.
Not only is she now facing felonies, but others could be too. Deputies say just because one student at Cuthbertson didn’t want to go to school, thousands of people were affected. “We had parents taking off of work, we had kids pulled out of school, kept from school, we had hundreds of manhours of law enforcement deployment to investigate this,” said Lt. James Maye with the Union County Sheriff’s Office.
Investigators got hundreds of calls from students and parents starting Tuesday night about texts and social media messages threatening violence at several high schools across Union County –Cuthbertson, Weddington, Sun Valley and Parkwood. Within eight to 12 hours, deputies say they figured out that a 15-year-old Cuthbertson student was responsible for most, but not all, of the threats.
“If you wake up and you don’t want to school, plead your case with your mom and dad but do not send threatening messages to our schools,” said Maye.
The student was arrested and charged with felonies.
“We don’t want to charge your kid with a felony offense, we don’t want to ruin the life of a teenager, however if they commit this type of offense in Union County, we are going to hold them accountable,” said Maye.
Now the investigation turns to copycat messages and tracking down who sent those.
“A lot of times people think what they do on the internet is hidden, sometimes it is difficult to trace but it’s never truly hidden,” said Maye. “The financial cost, the mental strain that it put on our community, it warranted this type of offense.”
Union County Public Schools say within about an hour of school administration and staff finding out about each of the threats, they informed parents about what was going on.
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