17-year-old arrested after allegedly posting fake school shooting threat 'because she did not want to go to school the next day'

A 17-year-old girl was arrested on Tuesday evening after she allegedly created a threatening Snapchat post directed at her high school in Union, Ky., because she didn’t want to go to class the next day, officials said.

The Larry A. Ryle High School student’s mother called the police to report that her daughter had received a threat via Snapchat. “The threat read, ‘Since nobody showed up to school today just wait till tomorrow, i’m going to drive past the cafeteria during 3rd lunch with my dad’s machine gun and just shoot non stop,’” the Boone County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on Facebook. 

Sheriff’s deputies then went to the student’s house to speak with her. They noticed inconsistencies in her story and the “reported timeline of events.” She confessed that she was behind the menacing message.

“The female juvenile ultimately confessed that she made the threat and posted it to her Snapchat story because she did not want to go to school the next day,” the sheriff’s office said.

Shortly after her confession, she fled her home on foot. Law enforcement officials quickly caught up with her, and although she resisted arrest, she was taken into custody and booked at the Campbell County Juvenile Detention Center.

“The female juvenile … was charged with Terroristic Threatening 2nd Degree, Fleeing or Evading Police 2nd Degree and Resisting Arrest,” the statement explained.

While the student will miss school Wednesday, others won’t. “Ryle will operate on a normal schedule and we will have additional staff and law enforcement at Ryle tomorrow,” the school district said in a statement shared to Twitter on Tuesday.

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This incident marks the fourth threat against this school since Sunday night. “There are several hundred students out today, unfortunately,” Boone County Schools spokeswoman Barbra Brady told Cincinnati news station WLWT in Ohio on Tuesday. An earlier threat came from a 15-year-old and warned students of a “bloodbath.”

Three other juveniles have been arrested and charged for making similar threats this week, WLWT reported.