Threats At Houston Area Schools Increase After Florida Shooting

HOUSTON, TX — It’s been nearly a week since 17 people were gunned down at a Parkland, Florida high school, and in the days since Houston area schools have seen a rash of threats.

Since the shooting on Valentine’s Day, there have been more than a dozen threats made at various campuses in the Houston area, either through social media or verbal threats.

Since the shooting threats have been made or allegedly made at several campuses including:

• Houston Can Academy………….Houston ISD
• Rodeo Palms Jr. High…………….Alvin ISD
• Clear Creek High School………...Clear Lake ISD
• Stevenson Middle School………..Houston ISD
• The Danish School (hoax)..........Cy-Fair
• CE King Middle School..............Sheridan ISD
• Bonnet Junior High...................Deer Park ISD
• Deer Park Junior High..............Deer Park ISD
• Harmony School………………….Katy ISD
• Baines Middle School…………….Fort Bend ISD
• Terry High School………………....Lamar Consolidated ISD
• Klein Forest High School………….Klein ISD
• Klein High School…………………..Klein ISD
• Hitchcock High School……………..Hitchcock ISD
• Timberwood Middle School………..Humble ISD
• Taylor High School………………….Katy ISD

On Monday, 18-year old Oryan McFadden, a student at Hitchcock High School in Santa Fe, Texas allegedly threatened to turn the school into “another Florida” after a teacher caught him cheating on a test, and on that same day Stevens Middle School in Houston ISD was locked down after a student who was off campus made a threat to the school, KPRC reported.

Meanwhile, in Katy ISD, Taylor High School principal Chad Morgan sent a note home to parents about a social media threat students had claimed was circulating, and had alarmed some students.

“I would like to encourage you to remind your student that we take all reports of inappropriate comments and threats seriously. Likewise, students who make credible threats will be disciplined to the fullest extent allowable by law and District policy,” Morgan said in his statement.

On Tuesday morning officials in Sheridan ISD, in east Harris County of a social media threat at C.E. King Middle School.

After two Fort Bend area students were arrested for making threats against school campuses last week, Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls urged students to think twice before making threats at schools.

"This isn't fun and games," Nehls said. "Once it reaches us here, the game is over. It's no fun anymore. We take these threats very seriously."

On Tuesday, two more Fort Bend students made threats to schools.

One at the Harmony School in katy again, and the latest at Needville Junior High, south of Rosenberg.

Both students were charged and are being held in the Fort Bend County Juvenile Detention Center.

Nehls once again urged parents to have a conversation with their children about what they post on social media, and the consequences of posting anything related to threatening school violence.

"Parents need to parent, and have a casual conversation with their kids," he said.

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