Middle School student threatens to kill classmates
Published on May 15th, 2002
STONEHAM, MA - Last Thursday someone scrawled a message on the sixth grade girls’ bathroom wall threatening “to get or to kill” people at the Stoneham Middle School on May 23, according to Superintendent Connelly.
Connelly said the threat was related to a fight last Wednesday between students off school property. Connelly said the students involved were identified by the school administration and punished, although he did not want to get into the details of their punishment. No criminal charges were filed.
Middle School Principal James Andreottola called an assembly last week to talk to students about the incident, and he sent a letter home to parents this week.
“Kids have to realize that in this day and age you can’t just make even what we consider to be idle threats,” Connelly said. “We feel we have the situation under control.”
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