A shocking development in the investigation into the threats posted online against high schools in Rapides Parish. Tommy Carnline with the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office says investigators looked into whether the threats posted against at least four different high schools were related to one another.
“None of these incidents are connected. None of them,” Carnline asserted.
Carnline says investigators have concluded that all of the threats are copycat incidents done by juveniles. He says they may think they’re being funny, but law enforcement is certainly not laughing, especially when they put the entire community on edge and forced one school to cancel all of its homecoming festivities.
“When you make some sort of threat over social media like that, we’re going to use every resource we have, and we’re going to track you down. We’re going to figure out who you are, and we’re going to place you under arrest,” Carnline said.
Carnline says those juvenile jokes, pranks or whatever they want to call them will have very severe ramifications.
“There are consequences to actions and these kids, they don’t realize that. They think, ‘Oh, it’s a funny joke.’ Well, in this day in time, you can’t do that,” Carnline said.
