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SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — Last weekend, a North Pines Middle School student made online threats of a school shooting.
It was a Snapchat conversation between two students that spread rapidly through North Pines Middle School last weekend. ‘Wanna see the AK I’ma bring to school on Tuesday?’ followed by a picture of a gun trigger were sent in the messages.
The student who sent that threat also made a list of students he wanted to shoot.
“These are sixth graders, and it’s just… it baffles my mind,” Tessa, the mother of a daughter at North Pines High School, said. “It’s sickening. It’s horrible.”
The online threat was ultimately determined to be unfounded by law enforcement. North Pines Middle School was open Tuesday with extra security out of an abundance of caution.
“If we were not confident that there was not a credible threat, we would not have opened school on Tuesday,” said Brian Asmus, director of safety and security for the Central Valley School District.
Tessa said it’s a terrifying thing, saying everybody wants their kid to come home safe and healthy and alive.
“This is a thing that’s happened now,” Tessa said. “It was prevented, how do we move forward? And what are the protocols going to be from here on out? Like what can we do? The parents that have actually seen those texts understand how real it actually was and is.”
The Director of Safety and Security for the Central Valley School District Brian Asmus said he heard about the threat on Sunday.
“There’s a criminal investigation being conducted by the Sheriff’s office, that involves some serious potentially felony crimes,” Asmus said. “The school, right is working on their disciplinary model, they have for the actions that happened.”
Asmus also said the investigation found that the student who actually sent the threat was impersonating another student on Snapchat.
While Tessa’s daughter is back in class, it’s anything but back to normal for her.
“As a mom, I’m terrified,” Tessa said. “I’m terrified for what all these kids that are going through in school right now…I truly am.”
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