Springfield Student Searched 'How To Kill A Teacher', Threatened School Shooting: Cops

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, PA — A local high school student is facing charges of making terroristic threats after he reportedly threatened to commit a school shooting.

Springfield Township police officers on Thursday morning responded to the high school for a threat of a school shooting and learned that students had reported to staff members on Wednesday that one of their classmates had threatened to commit violence at the school, according to an account from police.

High-schoolers had told school officials that the student made "indirect threats about how he'd accomplish a school shooting and used another child's laptop to search 'how to kill a teacher,'" the police department posted to its Facebook page.

The student, who was described as an 'adult male student,' was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with making terroristic threats. He was still awaiting arraignment at the time of this publication.

Police said that there is "no imminent threat to any schools in Springfield Township at this time."

The school district said it plans to release a statement to parents about the incident via email at some point.

Springfield police pointed out that the incident came on the heels of other threats made at schools throughout Montgomery, Bucks, and Delaware Counties in recent weeks. They also said that this was the second threat at a local school on Thursday, with the other involving a shared property at Fairwold Academy that is being investigated by Upper Dublin Police.

Patch did not immediately have information on that second incident as of the time of this publication.

Springfield Township is located just over the Philadelphia border at the Chestnut Hill neighborhood. It is situated near other Montgomery County communities such as Upper Dublin, Whitemarsh, Cheltenham and Abington.