By Sarah Stephens
Elmore Autauga News
Wednesday afternoon, a 10-year-old Elmore County student contacted law enforcement and indicated that his school, Airport Road Intermediate, was being shot up. Law enforcement arrived quickly and cleared the campus, finding that no such incident had actually occurred.
A small group of students participating in an extra-curricular activity were on campus at the time of the phone call, according to Elmore County School Supt. Richard Dennis.
The 10-year-old male student was identified and brought to court today and will be in Airbase Boulevard Youth Detention until January 16, Dennis said.
“It was a student who took a phone from another student and used that phone to call,” Dennis said. He again confirmed there was no shooting at Airport Road Intermediate School
Even though it was a small group of students on campus at the time of the threat, a lockdown was called.
Earlier this year a rash of social media threats caused fear to the point parents kept their children out of school. Those, too, were found to be fake, but the damage was done. However, students from our area who were involved in making the threats, were arrested and sent through the juvenile court system as well.
Dennis has said many times that this type of behavior either in person, by phone, or social media will not be tolerated. The recent arrests should spark parents to have serious conversations with their school-aged kids, that bad decisions can have bad consequences, that could follow them the rest of their lives.
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