North Carolina student charged with making a school threat

Hayesville, N.C. (WDEF) – Investigators in two counties acted quickly over the weekend to respond to reports of a threat of violence against a North Carolina school.

The threat was against a school in Hayesville, but the suspect was in Cherokee County.

It began Saturday night with a phone tip to the Clay County Sheriff’s Department.

The caller said a youth was threatening to burn down his house with everyone in it and then shoot up his school.

Sheriff’s investigators with the help of the Superintendent of schools found the student was living next door in Cherokee County.

They interviewed the youth and took the student into custody.

The Sheriff says the suspect did not have access to any guns.

But he/she did try to recruit a pair of other students to take part.

They did not go along, and, in fact, one of them was the anonymous tipper.

Sheriff Vic Davis says “Our investigators worked around the clock with the assistance of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and our Superintendent of schools to track down the student that made the threats.”

“Nothing is more important to us than the safety of our school and I want to commend our dispatchers and investigators for their diligent work in averting what could have been a terrible incident.”

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