STOCKTON — A 16-year-old Stockton student has been arrested after allegedly making school threats and posting them on social media.
Lincoln High School officials and parents are not taking the threats lightly. Several parents pulled their kids from school on Monday, even a couple hours after dropping them off.
This is Lincoln Unified’s first year with their cell phone ban. Despite what happened Monday, some parents are still supportive of it.
Lincoln High parent Rafael Montaner works in Tracy but got to the high school in Stockton as fast as he could to pick up his daughter once he got an alert about the matter Monday morning.
“She sounded worried and scared about what was going on,” Montaner said. “Luckily, I had a message from my daughter and she said a lot of her friends’ parents picked up her friends.”
More police officers were placed on campus Monday. The 16-year-old student will face criminal charges, and so could other people who shared the post if they shared it with the intention of spreading the threat, police said.