A 15-year-old Thomas Dale High School student was charged yesterday with threatening to shoot several staff members and students after police found a so-called "hit list" among his school papers.
The boy, whose name was being withheld because of his age, had a razor blade and a marijuana cigarette in his possession after he was arrested yesterday morning at the school, police said.
Police went through his school papers and "found that he had some notes about targeting some staff members and some students there at the school -- kind of like a 'hit list,'" said Chesterfield police Capt. Terry Patterson.
But after investigating further, Patterson said, police found he "had no viable means of carrying out the threats as stated in his writings."
Police learned over the weekend about boy's threats to bring a gun to school and arranged early yesterday to bring him to the school's office for questioning, Patterson said.
Once there, the boy was placed under arrest after he started cursing and became abusive. That's when officers found the weapon, drugs and writings on his person, Patterson said.
Patterson said the boy apparently targeted certain staff members and students because he felt they "disrespected him or made him do something he didn't what to do."
The boy, a freshman, was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of a weapon on school property, disorderly conduct, obstruction of justice, threat of death or bodily injury by letter and threats to bomb or damage a building.
He was being held today in the Chesterfield Juvenile Detention Center.
-- Mark Bowes
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