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Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009

Student arrested after threats found on his Facebook page

A Mount de Sales Academy student was arrested Friday after threatening statements were discovered on his Facebook page.

Mount de Sales President Katy Prebble said she was informed of the online posts Thursday night and she contacted Macon police.

Police officers were at the school Friday morning and made contact with the boy before classes began, she said.

The boy, whose name was not released by authorities, was sent home with a family member, Prebble said.

Later in the day he was arrested.

“He no longer will be attending Mount de Sales,” she said.

Macon police Sgt. Zac Self said the 14-year-old was charged with terroristic threats and released into his family’s custody.

Prebble said she made an announcement to students Friday explaining that while they might be concerned about the police officers’ presence, they weren’t in any danger.

A letter also was sent home to parents.

“There were no names attached to the threats,” she said.

The boy’s Facebook page lists him as being in the Mount De Sales class of 2013.

Thursday afternoon, the boy posted “might be my last day at mds... surden ppl deserve to die at dat skool... not all but surrden ppl,” according to a copy of the Facebook page attached to a police report.

The posts still were online Friday afternoon but had been removed by Friday night.

At about 8:30 p.m. Thursday, the boy posted, “I’m in a killing mood right now bra feel like killing sum ppl...,” Two of his Facebook “friends” responded to the posts with concern that they might be hurt by accident or asking him to “exclude me from your rampage.”

To one person, he wrote “yea bra its str8.”

To the other he responded “lol u str8 u all gud,” according to the police report.

By Friday night, the boy had posted messages saying he hadn’t done anything wrong and was asking his friends to tell the principal and counselors to allow him to return to school, according to the Facebook page.

“I was just rapping my song,” he posted.

Prebble said the school takes threats seriously.

“Safety is always the first thing on our minds,” she said.

To contact writer Amy Leigh Womack, call 744-4398.