Police arrest former Skyline student for school threat
Oct 2, 2012, 11:15 AM | Updated: 3:04 pm
A former Skyline High School student was arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly threatening to carry out a mass shooting at the school in September, the Sammamish Police Department announced.
Acting on tips from current students and the school resource officer, detectives served a search warrant at the teenager’s home in Edmonds. They seized three computers and two cell phones and say they recovered digital evidence linking him to the threat.
The 16-year-old was booked into the King County Youth Services Center for harassment a cyber-stalking, both Class C felonies.
The threat appeared on Sept. 20 and prompted school officials to cancel classes the following day.
Posted on a social media site, the threat complained about students at the school who, “use their wealth and social status to act superior to others.” The author stated that jocks would be targeted first because they are the “biggest offender.”
He went on to write that he would shoot students until he ran out of ammunition or was killed by police. A photo of an Erma submachine gun was attached to the threat, but police determined the image was a stock photo stolen from the Internet.
Police in Lynnwood will now investigate whether the same student is behind a similar threat posted earlier this year against Meadowdale High School.
