Online Threat From New Mexico Causes Stir At Bush High School

RICHMOND, TX — A screenshot of a Tweet threatening a school shooting that many believe was aimed at George Bush High School in Fort Bend County, caused mass searches of students as they entered the campus on Friday morning.

However, the tweet wasn’t intended for Bush High School, or any school in Texas, but originated in New Mexico and was intended to for Belen High School.

The tweet not only caused concern among students, but forced the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office to doa little damage control.

The screenshot being shared at @BHS_Broncos is from a case in NEW MEXICO. There is no threat. STUDENTS: stop sharing it. https://t.co/aJNaq40vKL
— FBCSO Texas (@FBCSO) February" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/FBCSO/stat... 23, 2018

Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls, whose department has arrested four students in the last week for making threats at three area school campuses, assured residents that he was on the phone with authorities in New Mexico about the tweet, and that there was no need for panic.

On Feb 16, two days after a shooting in a Parkland, Florida high school that left 17 people dead, a 14-year old student at Billy Baines Middle School and a 15-year old student at the Harmony School in Katy were arrested and charged with felony terroristic threat, after making online threats of school violence.

This week, another student at the Harmony campus was arrested for online threats, as well as a student in Needville ISD.

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