Gun Threat Found At Bentonville High School

— A high school student threatened to bring a gun to school and shoot people in a message written on a girls bathroom wall Monday morning, according to school and police officials.

The same student who reported the message to authorities was later discovered to be the one who wrote it, said Bentonville police Lt. Michael Martin.

"She'd written something like she was going to kill everyone at 11:11 a.m. (today)," Martin said.

Jason Beeler, a student resource officer at Bentonville High School, investigated the incident and identified the suspect, said Mary Ley, school district spokeswoman.

"The parents assured school administrators they don't own any guns," Ley said. "The parents have taken her home."

Ley declined to reveal the student's name or grade. She also couldn't say what action will be taken against the student.

The police investigation is continuing and no one had been arrested as of Monday afternoon, Martin said.

This is the third time in the past six weeks the district has dealt with some kind of threat written on a bathroom wall. The first was a bomb threat found at the high school Feb. 20. The second was found a week later at Cooper Elementary School. The person responsible for those two threats has not been discovered.

NW News on 04/01/2014

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