Two students are facing attempted murder charges after authorities found they threatened a metro Atlanta high school and had a homemade incendiary device at their homes, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Alfred Dupree and Victoria McCurley, 17-year-old students at Etowah High School, will be charged as adults over threats they made to the school, Cherokee County sheriff’s spokeswoman Sgt. Marianne Kelley said in a news release.
Dupree, of Acworth, and McCurley, of Woodstock, face three counts of criminal attempt to commit murder and four counts of making terroristic threats and acts.
Over the past two days, investigators completed search warrants on the homes of both suspects, Kelley said.
At the homes, investigators found a personal journal/diary, a homemade incendiary device that was described as a flammable substance and an undetermined powder substance, Kelley said.