ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — An Elizabethton High School student was charged with false reporting after allegedly claiming to have been responsible for an online threat to Happy Valley High School.
A joint press release from Elizabethton City Schools and the Elizabethton Police Department stated that investigators were at Elizabethton High School on Thursday looking into social media threats.
While there, investigators were informed of a Snapchat from a student who claimed to have made a threat to Happy Valley High School. The student had reportedly sent screenshots from Facebook with pictures of weapons from the Happy Valley threat.
Police determined the Elizabethton High student who claimed to have made the threat had actually just taken screenshots and then spread them on Snapchat. The student claimed to have done it as a “joke,” the news release stated.
“This ‘joke’ was not an additional threat but did create further alarm,” the release …