Two students arrested in separate school threats in Evesham
One suspect is 12-years-old, the other is 15. Both used Snapchat to send separate threats.
Evesham Township police have arrested two students and charged them with making separate shooting threats via Snapchat against a middle school and a high school, officials said Friday.
The latest arrest came Friday after police were alerted that a 12-year-old middle school student sent a Snapchat message to a fellow student about his desire to "plan a school shooting," police said in a statement. The parents of the recipient of the message called police after their child told them about it.
The boy, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, was charged with making terroristic threats and false public alarms.
On Wednesday, police arrested a 15-year-old Cherokee High School student who, officials said, sent a Snapchat message to a fellow student about his desire to "shoot up the school,"
One again, police were alerted to the threat by the parents of the recipient of the message after their child told them about it.
"We always take any kinds of threats against our schools very seriously," Evesham Police Chief Christopher Chew said in a statement.
The Evesham cases follow a spate of arrests around the region and the nation of students who allegedly made threats in the wake of the high school mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14.