Police in Riverside arrested a 15-year-old girl Wednesday who they said made violent threats on social media against Ramona High School.
The allegations come in the wake of the Riverside Police Department’s arrest Tuesday of a 13-year-old girl who is accused of making threats against Chemawa Middle School in at least two social media posts. A third teenager — a 14-year-old boy from the Riverside County city of Eastvale — was arrested Monday on suspicion of making undisclosed threats against students at a Jurupa Unified School District middle school.
Public Information Officer Ryan J. Railsback said the Riverside Police Department had investigated two dozen similar threats since the school year began in August. Similar incidents have occurred in recent weeks across the nation since a Sept. 4 shooting at a high school in Winder, Ga., that killed four people.
“This is going on across the entire country. We don’t know what is causing it,” he said. Specific threats against individual students or a school can lead to an arrest.