GEORGETOWN, SC – On Friday, officials announced a second student from Waccamaw Middle School has been accused of making death threats toward classmates, according to a report filed by officers with the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office.
Wednesday, the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office announced that one student was accused of making threats to the middle school.
The update release Friday says two 13-year-olds, both from Murrells Inlet, were taken to a juvenile detention facility in Columbia, after being charged with disturbing schools.
Lt. Robert Sarvis with the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office says parents of Waccamaw Middle School students alerted school district officials of threats made on social media this week.
The first student, charged March 8, made a Power Point presentation about school shootings Feb. 28 that left some of his classmates upset. Days later he posted on Instagram the phrase “Wednesday, March 22.” The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office says the date is associated with a 2001 school shooting in Granite Hills, California.
A witness told investigators the post was presented as humor by the suspect, and he did not want to take it down because of the amount of attention he was getting. Other witnesses came forward and said the two boys had made threats to kill fellow students on multiple occasions during the school year and had a “plan” using homemade bombs. Another witness told officers the two would often make comments about death and presented projects in class about people dying.
The students were both given psychiatric evaluations at Tidelands Health, Georgetown Memorial Hospital, before being transported the S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia.
