Teh One Who Knocks
02-20-2018, 12:09 PM
By Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com
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At least a dozen copycats have been arrested in school shooting threats across the country, less than a week after 17 died in the Florida high school massacre that shocked the nation.
Edward Charles Osgood, 14, was arrested on a written threat to kill charge on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Florida, after allegedly posting a menacing photo on Snapchat.
'Round 3 on Florida on Tuesday' read the caption, as Osgood stands in the photo posted Friday holding what appears to be a semi-automatic rifle.
Students at Lealman Innovation Academy, which Osgood attends, quickly reported the disturbing image to police, who rushed to interview the teen.
'I know why you are here, because of the photo,' Osgood told the Pinellas County deputies when they arrived, according to investigators.
Osgood explained that he'd seen a recent Snapchat post of a masked man with a gun promising 'Round 2 on Florida' and thought it was 'messed up', cops said. A teen in Spartanburg, South Carolina was arrested for the 'Round 2' threat.
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Fellow students at Lealman Innovation Academy reported this image to police on Saturday. Osgood was
interviewed and arrested, and the BB gun replica AR-15 in the photo was seized
For some reason, Osgood decided to pose with a friend's AR-15 replica BB gun and make a similar post, according to police. Police seized the BB gun from a friend's house after Osgood was arrested at his parents' house.
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It's only the latest in a string of sickening copycat school-shooting threats to sweep across the nation, landing the kids involved in a world of trouble.
In Morganton, North Carolina, police rushed to Patton High School on Monday morning after a student reported that another kid had threatened to 'shoot up the school'.
Mackenzie Rae Swink, 17, was charged with making a false report concerning mass violence on educational property.
She is being held at the Burke-Catawba District Confinement Facility. Bail was set at $50,000.
Police in Toledo, Ohio said on Monday that Christian Costet, 19, had been arrested for allegedly threatening to 'shoot up' Waite High School.
Cops recovered a replica rifle that Costed had allegedly posed with in photos. He was charged with inducing panic.
'There is no such thing as "this was just a joke",' Toledo Police Chief George Kral said in a statement. 'With mass shooting incidents increasing exponentially in our country, we will investigate and prosecute every threat to the full extent of the law.'
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One disturbing incident spanned multiple states, landing two teenage males in Kentucky and a juvenile girl in Texas behind bars.
Tristan H. Kelly, 19, and Cody T. Ritchey, 18, were arrested at 5.21am on Sunday in Nicholasville, Kentucky after cops worked throughout the night on a threat sent through Snapchat.
The image showed a boy holding a gun, who was identified as not involved in the threat, with the caption 'Be ready for school monday Jessamine County'.
The same photo, circulated online, appeared in a Snapchat post in north Texas later on Sunday.
It had a new caption over the original, reading: 'Be ready for school Tuesday Ennis High School.' Police in Texas said a juvenile female had been charged with terroristic threat in the case.
In eastern Kentucky, three teen girls were arrested on Sunday in a threat against Knox county schools.
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A 13-year-old girl who attends Knox County Middle School and an 16-year-old girl who attends Knox County Learning Academy hatched a scheme to get out of school by sending a threat over social media, police said.
Knox Central High School student Megan Scott, 19, was also arrested and charged with complicity to terroristic threatening.
Police said she knew about the two younger girls' threat and failed to report it to authorities.
Also in Kentucky, a 15-year-old girl was arrested on Monday for allegedly threatening to bomb Jackson County High School. She was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening and is being held in the Breathitt County Juvenile Detention Center.
There she joins a 14-year-old boy who was charged with second degree terroristic threatening after allegedly making a social media threat against North Laurel Middle School on Saturday. Kentucky State Police have not identified either teen.
In Norfolk, Virgina, a 14-year-old Lake Taylor Middle School student was arrested around 6.30am on Monday, after police responded to a tip about a social media post threatening to shoot other students.
The seventh grader faces a Class 6 felony charge for making threats of death or bodily injury.
On Thursday, a girl in Davie, Florida aged just 11 wrote a terrifying threat note, police say.
'I will bring a gun to school to kill all of you ugly a** kids and teachers b***h. I will bring the gun Feb, 16, 18. BE prepared b***h!'' read the note slipped under the door of an assistant principal's office.
Cops say the girl confessed to writing the note after surveillance footage revealed her leaving it. She has been arrested.
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In Houston, Stevenson Middle School went on lockdown for about two hours on Monday after a threat on social media. A student was arrested off-campus and charged with making a terroristic threat.
Elsewhere in Texas, police in El Paso said on Monday that they had arrested four suspects tied to a rash of school threats in recent days.
Across the state line in Louisiana, students at Ville Platte High School were also put on lockdown on Monday, after a threat to the school was made on Instagram around 12am.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested and charged in the matter, police say.
In Indiana, at least 10 school districts have investigated either a real or rumored copycat threat since the Florida school shooting. At least four people have been arrested in the state, and cops say more arrests could be coming.
In Iowa, schools in the Southeast Warren Community School District were put on lockdown Monday and a juvenile was arrested over a threat of a school shooting.
In Mississippi, a juvenile was arrested on Monday for allegedly making threats on Snapchat against Petal High School the day prior. It follows the arrests of two 16-year-old boys in north Mississippi on Saturday in Snapchat threats made against students at Olive Branch's Center Hill High School.
Over the weekend, a 13-year-old boy in Republic, Missouri was arrested after making a video threat to shoot up a school with an AK-47.
The teen was charged with first-degree making a terrorist threat after sending the video to a friend via social media late on Friday evening, police said.
The threat was not reported to cops until nearly a day later, on Saturday evening, the Republic Police Department said in a statement.
The teen was arrested at 2.37am and transported to the Greene County Juvenile Detention Center.
Cops said that the threat did not target a specific school. The boy was reportedly a student at Republic Middle School.
Police said guns and other evidence were seized during the search of the boy's home, but did not reveal whether they recovered an AK-47.
The Kalashnikov AK-47 and similar knock-offs are fully automatic rifles that are illegal throughout the US, unless they are models designed to fire only in semi-auto mode.
School was held as normal in Republic on Monday.
All staff met before classes started to discuss how to support students in any conversations sparked by the incident, the district said in a statement.
'We will help students process this situation and continue to reiterate the message that we must all work together to keep our schools safe,' the statement said.
The Republic Police Department reminded the public to communicate any threats promptly.
'It is important for students and parents to immediately report threats like this to law enforcement so a proper investigation can be conducted,' the department said.
https://i.imgur.com/SFLkO1n.png
At least a dozen copycats have been arrested in school shooting threats across the country, less than a week after 17 died in the Florida high school massacre that shocked the nation.
Edward Charles Osgood, 14, was arrested on a written threat to kill charge on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Florida, after allegedly posting a menacing photo on Snapchat.
'Round 3 on Florida on Tuesday' read the caption, as Osgood stands in the photo posted Friday holding what appears to be a semi-automatic rifle.
Students at Lealman Innovation Academy, which Osgood attends, quickly reported the disturbing image to police, who rushed to interview the teen.
'I know why you are here, because of the photo,' Osgood told the Pinellas County deputies when they arrived, according to investigators.
Osgood explained that he'd seen a recent Snapchat post of a masked man with a gun promising 'Round 2 on Florida' and thought it was 'messed up', cops said. A teen in Spartanburg, South Carolina was arrested for the 'Round 2' threat.
https://i.imgur.com/W3RmI3y.jpg
Fellow students at Lealman Innovation Academy reported this image to police on Saturday. Osgood was
interviewed and arrested, and the BB gun replica AR-15 in the photo was seized
For some reason, Osgood decided to pose with a friend's AR-15 replica BB gun and make a similar post, according to police. Police seized the BB gun from a friend's house after Osgood was arrested at his parents' house.
https://i.imgur.com/F2X3AQ9.png
It's only the latest in a string of sickening copycat school-shooting threats to sweep across the nation, landing the kids involved in a world of trouble.
In Morganton, North Carolina, police rushed to Patton High School on Monday morning after a student reported that another kid had threatened to 'shoot up the school'.
Mackenzie Rae Swink, 17, was charged with making a false report concerning mass violence on educational property.
She is being held at the Burke-Catawba District Confinement Facility. Bail was set at $50,000.
Police in Toledo, Ohio said on Monday that Christian Costet, 19, had been arrested for allegedly threatening to 'shoot up' Waite High School.
Cops recovered a replica rifle that Costed had allegedly posed with in photos. He was charged with inducing panic.
'There is no such thing as "this was just a joke",' Toledo Police Chief George Kral said in a statement. 'With mass shooting incidents increasing exponentially in our country, we will investigate and prosecute every threat to the full extent of the law.'
https://i.imgur.com/SSO7KHf.png
https://i.imgur.com/6K52Llj.png
One disturbing incident spanned multiple states, landing two teenage males in Kentucky and a juvenile girl in Texas behind bars.
Tristan H. Kelly, 19, and Cody T. Ritchey, 18, were arrested at 5.21am on Sunday in Nicholasville, Kentucky after cops worked throughout the night on a threat sent through Snapchat.
The image showed a boy holding a gun, who was identified as not involved in the threat, with the caption 'Be ready for school monday Jessamine County'.
The same photo, circulated online, appeared in a Snapchat post in north Texas later on Sunday.
It had a new caption over the original, reading: 'Be ready for school Tuesday Ennis High School.' Police in Texas said a juvenile female had been charged with terroristic threat in the case.
In eastern Kentucky, three teen girls were arrested on Sunday in a threat against Knox county schools.
https://i.imgur.com/9NT3bqT.png
A 13-year-old girl who attends Knox County Middle School and an 16-year-old girl who attends Knox County Learning Academy hatched a scheme to get out of school by sending a threat over social media, police said.
Knox Central High School student Megan Scott, 19, was also arrested and charged with complicity to terroristic threatening.
Police said she knew about the two younger girls' threat and failed to report it to authorities.
Also in Kentucky, a 15-year-old girl was arrested on Monday for allegedly threatening to bomb Jackson County High School. She was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening and is being held in the Breathitt County Juvenile Detention Center.
There she joins a 14-year-old boy who was charged with second degree terroristic threatening after allegedly making a social media threat against North Laurel Middle School on Saturday. Kentucky State Police have not identified either teen.
In Norfolk, Virgina, a 14-year-old Lake Taylor Middle School student was arrested around 6.30am on Monday, after police responded to a tip about a social media post threatening to shoot other students.
The seventh grader faces a Class 6 felony charge for making threats of death or bodily injury.
On Thursday, a girl in Davie, Florida aged just 11 wrote a terrifying threat note, police say.
'I will bring a gun to school to kill all of you ugly a** kids and teachers b***h. I will bring the gun Feb, 16, 18. BE prepared b***h!'' read the note slipped under the door of an assistant principal's office.
Cops say the girl confessed to writing the note after surveillance footage revealed her leaving it. She has been arrested.
https://i.imgur.com/s47LNJO.png
In Houston, Stevenson Middle School went on lockdown for about two hours on Monday after a threat on social media. A student was arrested off-campus and charged with making a terroristic threat.
Elsewhere in Texas, police in El Paso said on Monday that they had arrested four suspects tied to a rash of school threats in recent days.
Across the state line in Louisiana, students at Ville Platte High School were also put on lockdown on Monday, after a threat to the school was made on Instagram around 12am.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested and charged in the matter, police say.
In Indiana, at least 10 school districts have investigated either a real or rumored copycat threat since the Florida school shooting. At least four people have been arrested in the state, and cops say more arrests could be coming.
In Iowa, schools in the Southeast Warren Community School District were put on lockdown Monday and a juvenile was arrested over a threat of a school shooting.
In Mississippi, a juvenile was arrested on Monday for allegedly making threats on Snapchat against Petal High School the day prior. It follows the arrests of two 16-year-old boys in north Mississippi on Saturday in Snapchat threats made against students at Olive Branch's Center Hill High School.
Over the weekend, a 13-year-old boy in Republic, Missouri was arrested after making a video threat to shoot up a school with an AK-47.
The teen was charged with first-degree making a terrorist threat after sending the video to a friend via social media late on Friday evening, police said.
The threat was not reported to cops until nearly a day later, on Saturday evening, the Republic Police Department said in a statement.
The teen was arrested at 2.37am and transported to the Greene County Juvenile Detention Center.
Cops said that the threat did not target a specific school. The boy was reportedly a student at Republic Middle School.
Police said guns and other evidence were seized during the search of the boy's home, but did not reveal whether they recovered an AK-47.
The Kalashnikov AK-47 and similar knock-offs are fully automatic rifles that are illegal throughout the US, unless they are models designed to fire only in semi-auto mode.
School was held as normal in Republic on Monday.
All staff met before classes started to discuss how to support students in any conversations sparked by the incident, the district said in a statement.
'We will help students process this situation and continue to reiterate the message that we must all work together to keep our schools safe,' the statement said.
The Republic Police Department reminded the public to communicate any threats promptly.
'It is important for students and parents to immediately report threats like this to law enforcement so a proper investigation can be conducted,' the department said.