Perry High School Shooter Sent Discord Messages Minutes Before Attack
The shooter wrote he was “gearing up” in the bathroom and used a racial slur minutes before the deadly shooting.
Jan. 12, 2024 Amy Rock
PERRY, Iowa — The Iowa teenager who carried out a shooting at Perry High School earlier this month sent several messages on a social media platform with details of his impending deadly assault.
The 17-year-old, who shot and killed 11-year-old Ahmir Jolliff and injured seven others on Jan. 4, messaged a group of online friends on Discord saying he was at the school and ready “for what’s to come,” NBC reports. Ten minutes before the shooting, he then wrote, “I’m f—–g nervous, I’m [in] the bathroom gearing up.” At one point, he posted a photo of himself with a blue duffel bag inside a school bathroom stall on TikTok with the caption, “Now we wait.”
California school blocks police from arresting students suspected of attempted murder
by KRISTINA WATROBSKI | Crisis in the ClassroomMon, Jan. 29, 2024
SANTA ROSA, Ca. (CITC) — A California school district denied police detectives access to four students suspected in a gang-related attempted murder incident earlier this month. Detectives from the Santa Rosa Police Department (SRPD) arrived to Elsie Allen High School on Jan. 16 in search of the students. The students were four of six juveniles suspected in the Jan. 11 stabbing of a 41-year-old Santa Rosa resident. The victim and juveniles engaged in confrontational language near a local park before the juveniles stabbed the adult multiple times, with one wound being to the side of his neck, according to a police report.
Second Arrest for Planning Shooting at Scranton School
The second arrest comes as gang violence is top of mind for police in Scranton.
Author: Courtney Harrison Updated: Jan. 25, 2024, 6:28 p.m. EST
SCRANTON, Pa. — This was the scene Wednesday afternoon near Scranton High School after police say 16-year-old Shayir Dickerson took a bus from Wilkes Barre to Scranton. Police received a call about a suspicious person with a gun. Police later intercepted Dickerson with a loaded rifle heading toward the school.
WILMINGTON, Del. (WPVI) -- Delaware State Police arrested a 16-year-old after he allegedly had a gun at a school.
Staff at John Dickinson School on Milltown Road in Wilmington alerted a school resource officer Wednesday morning and removed the student from his classroom. They say he had a loaded magazine and an unloaded handgun in his backpack.
-- In Alabama, the Supreme Court of Alabama ruled that a school district was protected from liability by state-agent immunity after a substitute teacher was attacked by students while she was working in the classroom used for students in the alternative-learning program, students in the in-school-suspension program, and students whose possible disciplinary violations school officials had not yet had the opportunity to address discipline. The court noted that a state agent “shall be immune if his or her conduct involved… exercising his or her judgment in the discharge of duties imposed by statute, rule, or regulation in ... educating students.” The court clarified the main issue, namely that, “(e)ducating students includes not only classroom teaching, but also supervising and educating students in all aspects of the educational process.” The court held that the immunity of school officials can only be abrogated in circumstances in which “the State agent acted willfully, maliciously, fraudulently, in bad faith, or beyond his or her authority.” Here, the court ruled, the teacher had not shown that the school, “acted beyond their authority by not following established policies and procedures” and so the rules of immunity would apply.Ex parte Louie
-- In Texas, officials in the Midway ISD plan to create its own police force to increase school safety. “There could be two school resource officers at the district’s high school and one at each middle school, along with a police chief.” This will solve the problem of identifying and retaining officers through the local police department and allows the schools to focus upon “a rise in students vaping at school.”
-- In Washington State officials in King County are implementing a ‘Safer Schools Strategy’ to upgrade their crisis plan after a 2022 tragic shooting at a high school. The main features comply with longstanding provisions of state law: “notifying the schools when a student is charged with a felony involving a firearm in the community…providing information about court conditions that the student might be on… making sure the school has a way to reach the probation officer.”
-- In North Carolina, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School board approved a policy to provide Narcan to every school. “State health data shows less than 20 percent of overdose deaths happen in people younger than 25, but CMS leaders reported…that nearly 720 incidents in which students were caught with controlled substances during the 2022-23 school year.” “School nurses, school resource officers, and other staff members in every school will receive training on how to administer Narcan.”
Expert Q&A: Cyberstalking and Cyberbullying Among Teens
Feb. 14, 2024, 2 - 3:15 p.m. ET | Virtual
Cyberstalking involves repeated use of technology to contact and harass someone else, causing them to fear for their safety. Cyberstalking is a form of cyberbullying that occurs when someone uses technology to demean, inflict harm, or cause pain to another person through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices. Both are common among teens. What is the impact of cyberstalking and cyberbullying on teens? What can teachers and schools do to prevent or reduce their incidence? How do you report cyberstalking and cyberbullying? What laws are in place to protect teens?
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Enhancing School Safety Using Behavioral Threat Assessment Virtual Training
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