OH: School Lockdown for Picture of Gun, Text

Gun Watch ^ | 20 December, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The latest apparent overreaction about guns and schools appears to be in Ohio, in Stark County, at the Marlington High School in Alliance.   A high school student texted a middle school student.  Attached to the message was a picture of a gun.  The middle school student showed the picture to their teacher, the teacher contacted the police, and the High School was put on lockdown.   From wkyc.com:

Officers and deputies located the suspect while maintaining a safety perimeter around the school.

Corleaunce S. Hicks 16 , of Alliance, was charged with inducing panic, a third-degree felony.

 There is usually more to these headline grabbing lockdowns than meets the first glance.   It hardly seems appropriate or prudent to lockdown a school simply because a student texted a picture of a gun.  Was the gun shown in the classroom?  Was a threat made to kill fellow students?

The answer to those questions appears to be no.  From the-review.com:

"I wouldn't go as far as to say it was a threat, but it was a concerning statement," Stark County Sheriff George T. Maier said of the message accompanying the gun image.

Maier said they found no weapons at Marlington High School. Deputies conducted interviews and locker searches while a Canton Police Department K-9 officer swept the school for weapons.

Investigators have determined that Hicks does not own a gun.

The gun in the image, Maier said, belongs to an acquaintance of Hicks.

Fortunately, the lockdown lasted less than an hour and a half.  About like a fire drill when I was in high school.   I would have to see the message in question, but a felony charge for a message that was "concerning" seems rather severe.

A tip of the hat to  Wireless.Phil,

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[bgill]

The Teacher and EVERY COP there should be charged with the same. THEY created the Panic, not the student.

Exactly. Idiots all. Bet they all voted for Hussein.

[bgill]

Didn’t the NEA recieve a large order for extra ammo not long ago? They can have the real thing but students get brought up on felony charges for pictures and pop tarts.

[lostboy61]

Thank G_D he did not have a Thermal Nuclear bomb thought. Those kids would still be under their desks.

[knarf]

see my 16

[Hulka]

Great minds and all that. . .

[knarf]

Actually ... we're crazy ... imagine how many people would have to be "in on it" to pull off a conspiracy like that ?

Unless of course, all those people really, really thought alike ... like ... having been programmed.

I begin my second year as a school board director and I've promised God I'd obey Him.

School boards are SO afraid of the ACLU, but I have power I never knew before ....

I'm elected and can't be fired

Ever hear of the GSA ?

Gay/straight alliance ... a club no one knew had been in our high school for four years (except the kids, of course, and they're conditioned to accept or ignore it)

I found it researching some of the stuff I was supposed to vote on and I asked a few questions that started a ball rolling

As of now 14 riled up families are pulling their kids out of gummint school and plan to cyber or home school

Happy New Year, gummint school

[HotHunt]

[marktwain]

“Didn’t the NEA recieve a large order for extra ammo not long ago? They can have the real thing but students get brought up on felony charges for pictures and pop tarts.’

No, I think that was the Department of Education. Of course, many contend that it is a wholly owned susidiary of the NEA.