CLARK COUNTY -- At least four Ohio schools are on alert after apparent threats in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting.
In Hamilton County, in southwest Ohio, an 18-year-old man was charged with inducing panic Sunday after a Facebook post said he was sick of the comments about the shooting, and that they made him want to shoot kids himself.
A student at Springfield High sent a series of threatening messages on twitter. Police removed him in handcuffs.
Officials in Willoughby, in northeast Ohio, notified parents of Twitter postings saying a gun and bomb would be brought to a middle school. No evidence was found to substantiate it.
In Springfield, sheriff's deputies planned to provide extra security at Shawnee High School Monday after a student posted on Facebook that he could "do better" than the Friday shooting that left 28 people dead. A local parent saw the post and notified police.
Students at Shawnee High School were a little on edge coming to school today, not because of Friday's shooting in Connecticut, but because one of their classmate's Facebook post.
"Nobody thought he would do it but there is that if... if he would do it," student Nathaniel Cooper said.
That fear extended to family members throughout the community.
"If I still went here I wouldn't have came today," said former student Shante Ellis. "I'd be scared, didn't want anything to happen, you never know."
After the Clark Shawnee School District learned about the threat, they sent an all call message to all the parents.
"You don't think anybody would make comments like that or joke about that, its just wrong," said parent Lisa Petrae.
"I didn't think it was that funny he shouldn't have did it," said Cooper.
"This was not a young child this was a 17 year old who knows everything you put on the internet you should be and will be held accountable for and I do not take these postings lightly," Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly said.
In addition to the security measures Clark Shawnee schools has in place students also got to see extra security in there halls. Four Deputies were on hand at the high school and there was one in every other school.
"It's a huge concern it frightens everyone and something that has to be looked at very thoroughly," superintendent of Clark Shawnee schools Gregg Morris said.
"I think it's important for people to pray for the student before they go to school because you never know what's going to happen," said Ellis.
The superintendent told me that student will be suspended for the next 10 school days. Towards the end of the suspension that student will have a hearing deciding whether or not he will be expelled.
In Hamilton County, in southwest Ohio, an 18-year-old man was charged with inducing panic Sunday after a Facebook post said he was sick of the comments about the shooting, and that they made him want to shoot kids himself.
A student at Springfield High sent a series of threatening messages on twitter. Police removed him in handcuffs.
Officials in Willoughby, in northeast Ohio, notified parents of Twitter postings saying a gun and bomb would be brought to a middle school. No evidence was found to substantiate it.
In Springfield, sheriff's deputies planned to provide extra security at Shawnee High School Monday after a student posted on Facebook that he could "do better" than the Friday shooting that left 28 people dead. A local parent saw the post and notified police.
Students at Shawnee High School were a little on edge coming to school today, not because of Friday's shooting in Connecticut, but because one of their classmate's Facebook post.
"Nobody thought he would do it but there is that if... if he would do it," student Nathaniel Cooper said.
That fear extended to family members throughout the community.
"If I still went here I wouldn't have came today," said former student Shante Ellis. "I'd be scared, didn't want anything to happen, you never know."
After the Clark Shawnee School District learned about the threat, they sent an all call message to all the parents.
"You don't think anybody would make comments like that or joke about that, its just wrong," said parent Lisa Petrae.
"I didn't think it was that funny he shouldn't have did it," said Cooper.
"This was not a young child this was a 17 year old who knows everything you put on the internet you should be and will be held accountable for and I do not take these postings lightly," Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly said.
In addition to the security measures Clark Shawnee schools has in place students also got to see extra security in there halls. Four Deputies were on hand at the high school and there was one in every other school.
"It's a huge concern it frightens everyone and something that has to be looked at very thoroughly," superintendent of Clark Shawnee schools Gregg Morris said.
"I think it's important for people to pray for the student before they go to school because you never know what's going to happen," said Ellis.
The superintendent told me that student will be suspended for the next 10 school days. Towards the end of the suspension that student will have a hearing deciding whether or not he will be expelled.
