15-year-old arrested after online threats to Mobile schools

Police, school officials describe rapid overnight response, encourage people not to share threats on social media

Andy Gatewood, director of safety and security for the Mobile County Public School System, discusses response to an online threat against several schools.A 15-year-old is facing a charge of making a terrorist threat against several schools in Mobile, with police and school officials describing a rapid overnight response to the situation.

Police say three juveniles were detained and two were released. The third, a 15-year-old male who was not a public-school student, was arrested and taken to Strickland Youth Center. One of the first challenges for investigators is to weed through social media posts to determine who was sharing a threat and who actually made it. The more people who share it, the harder that is, he said. The best course of action is to report threats to police and school officials, he said.

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