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A Riverside County highschool pupil has been was arrested on suspicion of creating felony threats on social media in the direction of different college students, police stated.
On Wednesday, a Riverside police School Resource Officer assigned to Ramona High School started investigating a report of attainable threats made by a pupil in the direction of different college students by way of social media. Officials stated the officer discovered {that a} group of feminine college students had been a part of a bunch chat on Instagram through which one in all them shared a photograph of weapons together with a message suggesting violence in the direction of a classmate.
A 15-year-old woman was arrested and booked right into a Riverside County juvenile facility on suspicion of creating felony threats. The picture shared by the coed initially got here from a submit made in Indiana, in keeping with Riverside police spokesman Ryan Railsback.
Sufficient proof was amassed to acquire a warrant to look her household dwelling, the place it was “decided she doesn’t have entry to firearms,” a police spokesman stated. Railsback stated a “School Threat Assessment & Response” protocol was adopted to confirm there was no imminent hazard to college students or employees at Ramona High.
The incident marked the third time a minor has been arrested within the final two weeks in Riverside County in circumstances involving college students accused of creating threats.
Railsback stated threats made on faculty campuses throughout the nation come throughout a time the place faculty shootings are too frequent. “[There is] simply an excessive amount of happening with faculty violence in our nation, particularly lately that we can not deal with it some other means,” he stated.
As of Sept. 4, there have been 139 incidents of gunfire on faculty grounds in 2024, in keeping with Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund’s information. The nonprofit started monitoring gun violence at faculties throughout the U.S. in 2013.
If you see a social media or on-line submit threatening violence in opposition to a particular particular person or faculty, report it by calling the City of Riverside Public Safety Communications Center’s non-emergency quantity at (951) 354-2007.
City News Service contributed to this report
