State police have arrested a pair of juveniles in connection with a possible threat at Litchfield High School.
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The students’ attorney, David Moraghan, tells the Times it’s all a big misunderstanding: the students did attend a Halloween party dressed in “distasteful” costumes, but they were not armed and did not make any threats.
The State Police confirmed the home search, but declined to answer questions about what they found. Mr. Moraghan said, “Nothing was found in either boy’s home that could in any way give credence to what they claim the boys were going to do”.
A hint of sarcasm was detected by the suspects’ response and the conversation ended, Moraghan said.
Two students will likely be expelled from a Connecticut high school after they were accused of dressing up like the Columbine High School killers on Halloween and threatening to harm others at their school. They only said that the boys were making “threats of bodily harm” to their fellow students and that their behavior, reported by the faculty members who were “concerned about safety”, violated the peaceful school environment. She said school officials were later told by police that there was no credible threat and students were never in danger. This is the times we’re living in, and we would be inhuman if it didn’t put us on edge’. They were both taken into custody and were placed at a juvenile detention center in Litchfield.
Through the course of their investigation, Troopers determined that two juveniles were responsible for the potential threat.
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‘Nevertheless, at every stage, we took the matter very seriously, ‘ McMullin wrote in a message posted on the school system’s website. A spokesperson for the superintendent said that the school district is attempting to get the students expelled from school.
