FORD COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating threats allegedly made by students in Dodge City.
Just after 3:30p.m. Monday, the Dodge City High School Resource Officer (SRO) was made aware of a potential threat to the school, according to a media release from police.
The SRO began investigating an alleged Snapchat message sent to other students telling them not to go to school Monday. The message came in a thread where the subject was about the previous threat made to the school on August 27.
The students did the right thing and alerted school authorities. Since there were no described threats to the school or students, two students were charged with disorderly conduct, and a case will be filed with the Ford County Attorney’s Office.
While investigating the threat to the school, the same high school SRO was approached by high school staff at approximately 9:00a.m. to inform him of another threat made on Monday at the high school.
It is alleged that a 15-year-old student told other students that he would be “the next school shooter.” He indicated that two other students would be first and second on his list. He then held his hand up in the form of a gun and pointed at one of the students after indicating that he had a gun in his backpack. This student was located off-campus and arrested for felony criminal threat. A case will be filed with the Ford County Attorney’s Office.