Three students are in custody after making what were perceived as threats to student safety at area high schools. It’s the latest in a string of local hoax incidents following last week’s deadly Florida school shooting.
A Ringgold, Ga., high school student is accused of making a new Snapchat account, sending herself a threatening message and passing it along to other students, making it look like she was the target of a dangerous plot.
The Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office charged 17-year-old Alexandria Justine Greene, of Cemetery Road in Ringgold, with falsely reporting a crime Monday night. According to an incident report, other students heard about the threatening message and alerted the police.
Greene told investigators that someone named Kevin Garrett added her on Snapchat on Monday evening, under the username KEVGARR234. She said she didn’t know him and thought he was trying to reach someone else. Greene, who is black, showed an investigator a message threatening to kill her and using multiple racial slurs.
She said Garrett also called her.