Schools
South Forsyth Football Player Arrested Following Twitter Threats
The 19-year-old used a fake name online and claimed a shooting would happen the next day at the Cumming school.
A South Forsyth High School football player is facing more than an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after police say he used the name of another student online to claim that a shooting on campus was imminent.
Emmanuel Godswill, 19, was arrested on Tuesday and has been charged with disruption of public school and public defamation after he sent out a tweet using a former student’s identity which stated that the campus would be attacked the following day. The tweet was a hoax, but school officials and the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office are taking Godwill’s actions very seriously.
A student interviewed by FOX 5 Atlanta claims Godswill’s tweet was an image of a text message which claimed the two-letter athlete should not go to school the next day, as something bad was going to happen.
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Godswill bonded out of the Forsyth County jail on Tuesday, jail records show.
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