Eugene girl reports online threat to Wash. school
KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Kennewick police say a threat about a school shooting made in an online adventure game led to the arrest of a Kamiakin High School student.
A 12-year-old girl playing the game from Eugene, Ore., alerted the safety department about the threat, said Sgt. Ken Lattin.
Lattin said the 14-year-old boy who made the threat was arrested at his Kennewick home on investigation of felony harassment after commenting online that he was planning a shooting at his school.
Lattin says detectives have no evidence the student had access to weapons or that he made any threats while at school.
In the Eugene/Springfield area of Oregon, a program born out of the shooting at Thurston High School in May 1998 encourages students to speak out about even the slightest threat of violence by other students.
(Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.)
