Police charge Rock Hill middle student after threat to ‘bomb the school’
A student at a Rock Hill school has been charged after making a threat to bomb the school, police said.
The male student, 12, is a sixth-grader at Dutchman Creek Middle School, said Lt. Michael Chavis of the Rock Hill Police Department.
A teacher told school administrators Thursday the student said he was going to “bomb the school,” according to a police incident report.
The student was charged after an investigation by the school resource officer, Chavis said. No weapon was found and no students or staff were hurt, Chavis said.
The student was petitioned to York County Family Court on a charge of student threats, Chavis said.
Under South Carolina law, it is illegal “for a student of a school or college in this State to make threats to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon another by using any form of communication whatsoever.”
Dutchman Creek parents were notified by the school principal about the threat, said Mychal Frost, spokesman for the Rock Hill school district.
The message to parents stated: “Once reported, immediate action was taken by the school administration and our School Resource Officer to investigate and the threat was determined not to be credible and was a poor choice of words used by the student.”
The message told parents the school was safe.
