Crime & Safety
Student Charged After Threatening To 'Shoot Up' School
The teenager is a student at Salesian High School in New Rochelle.
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — A New Rochelle student was arrested for threatening to “shoot up” an all-boys Catholic high school. Police said the 16-year-old, who attends Salesian High School made the threat to a fellow student Oct. 6.
Administrators closed the school Thursday and Friday as officials investigated, the Journal News said. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)
The teenager was charged with a felony count of making terroristic threats, the Daily Voice said.
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The investigation is ongoing, police officials said. Anyone with information is asked to call 914-654-2270.
For more, read the Journal News and Daily Voice.
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