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Paducah Middle School Students Charged For School Threats

Matt Markgraf
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WKMS News

  The Paducah Police Department said Tuesday two Paducah Middle School students have been charged for making social media posts threatening to harm others at the school.

 

The students are each charged with one count of second-degree terroristic threatening, a Class D felony. Paducah Police said one made a threatening post last week. The other made a post Monday.

 

Police said an investigation found neither student planned to actually harm others. No teachers or students were targeted. The student who made a social media post last week said it was a “joke.”

 

 

"Liam Niemeyer is a reporter for the Ohio Valley Resource covering agriculture and infrastructure in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia and also serves Assistant News Director at WKMS. He has reported for public radio stations across the country from Appalachia to Alaska, most recently as a reporter for WOUB Public Media in Athens, Ohio. He is a recent alumnus of Ohio University and enjoys playing tenor saxophone in various jazz groups."
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