This story was updated at 6:46 p.m.
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An Ooltewah High School student was arrested Wednesday after the school resource deputy was made aware of a threat written on a bathroom wall, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office.
“The threat was written in red marker with a school shooting threat dated for August 19, 2022,” Sheriff’s Office spokesman J. Matt Lea said in a news release. “The Hamilton County sheriff’s SRD immediately began investigating the threat.”
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The school, which serves more than 1,000 students, did not have any announcements on its social media accounts about the threat.
Calls made to the school for comment were not returned.
During the investigation, the school resource deputy reviewed security footage of the school’s hallway and interviewed students, one of whom confessed to writing the threat on the wall, according to the release. The deputy also found the red marker in possession of the student who made the confession, according to the release.
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The student, who is a minor, was charged with one count of interference with government operations for making a shooting threat to a school and one count of vandalism.
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