Death Threat Scrawled On Gulf High Bathroom Wall Leads To School Lockdown

NEW PORT RICHEY, FL - Gulf High School in New Port Richey was placed on lockdown Wednesday after a threatening message of a pending shooting was found written on a bathroom wall, police said.

A female student allegedly admitted to the act, claiming it was meant as a joke, and was arrested and taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center, according to the New Port Richey Police Department.

The school's resource officer, Brett Schambach, was notified of the bathroom wall missive, in which someone threatened to bring a gun to shoot someone at the school, and Gulf High was placed on a modified lockdown, police said.

Schambach later found a Facebook post from a female student purportedly admitting to writing the threat, however, she fled the school premises when she learned an investigation was underway, police said.

The girl was contacted and returned to the campus and was arrested. She maintained the threat was meant as a joke, police said.

The suspect's name is being withheld due to her age.

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