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New Hampshire Teen Said He Was ‘Going To Shoot Up School,’ Police Say

February 17, 2018

A 16-year-old boy who live in Hampton, New Hampshire turned himself into police after they sought him in connection with statements to friends that he was “going to shoot up” Seacoast School of Technology, a regional technical school in Exeter, New Hampshire.

The unidentified teen-ager has been charged with misdemeanor criminal threatening. The superintendent said a second student was “seriously involved in threatening behavior” that is related to the first student’s threatening statements, according to The Union Leader.

Neither student will be allowed to go to the school during the investigation, she said.