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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – After the deadly schoolhouse shooting successful Georgia connected Sept. 4, schools astir the Central Valley person seen caller threats against students.
One of the latest, astatine Scandinavian Middle School successful Fresno, is wrong the Fresno Unified School District. Fresno Police accidental 1 of the school's students, a 13-year-old, was arrested Monday aft making a schoolhouse shooting menace connected societal media.
That teen present faces a felony complaint of transgression threats.
According to the Fresno Unified School District, the menace against Scandinavian Middle School was the 2nd of its benignant wrong a week. On Thursday, Ahwahnee Middle School reported receiving 3 threatening calls astir a weapon connected campus, oregon a imaginable schoolhouse shooting.
District officials accidental the pupil was cited for a misdemeanor.
"We've seen 2 threats conscionable successful the past fewer days present astatine Fresno Unified. We've seen evidently immoderate successful the vale wherever different students person been arrested arsenic well. A batch of it has to bash with the large events that happened past week successful Georgia," said FUSD Executive Officer of Health, Safety, & Emergency Response Amy Idsvoog.
Idsvoog says the territory volition ever measure each menace to determine whether to impact instrumentality enforcement.
She said this clip around, they decided to marque that telephone for each incident. The larger of the two, she says, was the station astatine Scandinavian Middle School. A station she says was shared aggregate times, making it hard to way the archetypal poster.
"The larger ones, similar we experienced this week of a societal media station that went viral. As soon arsenic we were made alert of it, instrumentality enforcement was made alert of it," said Idsvoog.
It's not conscionable Fresno. Within a week of the shooting astatine Apalachee High School, determination person been schoolhouse shooting threats made astatine schools successful Tulare and Merced counties.
An adept astatine UC Merced says threats usually travel from young men oregon teens with suicidal thoughts oregon tendencies exposed to net violence.
"The astir 15- to 24-year-olds, that's wherever we spot this. A batch of the time, they person been exposed to extremist websites oregon societal media accounts," said Sidra Goldman-Mellor, an Associate Professor of Public Health astatine UC Merced.
Goldman-Mellor says portion threats seldom materialize into action, for parents it is indispensable to guarantee immoderate kid astatine location does not person entree to guns, nary substance their anterior past oregon firearm training.
"They should not person unfettered entree to firearms and that tin spell a agelong mode towards preventing these kinds of tragic events," she said.
If recovered to person made threats, students tin look suspension oregon expulsion, and that's earlier ineligible enactment and sometimes life-derailing consequences.
"Anybody who's reasoning astir making these online threats. I would deliberation doubly astir it due to the fact that you volition person consequences and jailhouse is 1 of them," said Fresno Police Officer Luke Tran.
If you spot thing alarming connected societal media, oregon online, schoolhouse and constabulary officials inquire the nationalist not to share, but alternatively interaction instrumentality enforcement.
