Teen Charged In OLCHS Snapchat Shooting Threat

OAK LAWN, IL -- A 15-year-old student who threatened to shoot up Oak Lawn Community High School on social media has been charged as a juvenile for a threat of violence or death directed at persons at a school, police said. The teen is now being detained at the Cook County Juvenile Justice Center, where he will appear at a detention hearing on Monday.

Oak Lawn police became aware if the threat around 3 p.m. Sunday, when the school shooting threat surfaced on Snapchat. The full-time Oak Lawn police officer assigned to the high school was able to determine that the source of the threat was a 15-year-old student at OLCHS, police said.

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School officials asked parents in an email sent Sunday night to discuss with their students the consequences of joking about making school shooting threats on social media.

I am asking all parents to discuss this incident with their students, discuss the severity of making and posting threatening comments, and to report any additional information about this incident to a school administrator.

This latest incident does not appear to be related to social media rumors of a school shooting from earlier this month.