A 15-year-old Thomas Dale High School student has been charged with threatening to shoot several faculty members and students after police found what they described as a "hit list" among his school papers.
The teen, whose name was being withheld because of his age, had a razor blade and a marijuana cigarette in his possession when he was arrested Monday morning at the school in Chester, police said.
Police decided to confront the teen after they learned over the weekend about threats he allegedly made to bring a gun to school and "shoot some people," said Chesterfield County police Capt. Terry Patterson. Officers then arranged to bring the boy to the school's office early Monday for questioning.
Once there, the teen was placed under arrest after he started cursing and became disorderly. That's when officers searched him and found the weapon, drugs and written threats in his papers, Patterson said.
"He had some notes about targeting some staff members and some students there at the school -- kind of like a 'hit list,'" Patterson said.
But after further investigation, including a search of his home, police determined he "had no viable means of carrying out the threats as stated in his writings," he said.
Patterson said the boy apparently targeted certain faculty members and students for harm because he felt they "disrespected him or made him do something he didn't want 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 yesterday at the Chesterfield Juvenile Detention Center.
Contact Mark Bowes at (804) 649-6450 or mbowes@timesdispatch.com.
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