School threats are on the rise after a Jan. It's been a little more than a week since year-old Josselin Corea Escalante was killed and a year-old classmate was injured after another year-old boy opened fire and later shot himself in the school cafeteria, and Metro Police say there have been 12 arrests connected with violence in Nashville schools.
Eleven of the arrests were related to making threats against schools while the 12th arrest involved a student bringing a gun on school property, police said. More: Nashville mayor denounces additional threats of violence in wake of Antioch High shooting. The new arrests come during a continuing wave of threats of mass violence that began in and after a July state law made it a felony to make such threats against schools.
The measure followed a similar law that passed in requiring public schools to expel students for one year if they make a threat of mass violence. The expulsion law was meant to serve as a deterrent against threats in the wake of The Covenant School shooting.
It has triggered at least two lawsuits , with parents arguing it's far too harsh. The suits say children are being held in juvenile detention and solitary confinement as well as being strip-searched and expelled. Here are the details police gave regarding the most recent arrests in Nashville:. Two students were arrested Jan. An year-old at Hunters Lane High School admitted to telling another student in his class that he would shoot up the school. The teen and his parents met at the Madison police precinct, where he admitted to making the threat.
In a separate case, a year-old Intrepid College Prep student was charged with making a threat of mass violence and false report after police said he threatened to kill a group of students. The school suspended the boy, and when he returned to school, he texted another student, threatened to shoot him and sent a video of a gun, police reported.
