Franklin student sentenced to probation for inducing panic

15-year-old girl shared mass shooting plot with classmates
Crime & Law
By Ed Richter
Nov 14, 2014
X

A 15-year-old Franklin High School student received a suspended sentence to a state youth correctional facility and was placed on probation with house arrest rules Thursday after admitting to a felony charge of inducing panic on school grounds.

According to police, the girl made comments to classmates about planning a mass shooting at the high school. One of the students told a teacher about the girl’s desire to die at the hands of police in a school shooting. That teacher contacted the principal, and the principal contacted police, according to reports.

The 15-year-old girl changed her denial plea during a Nov. 5 hearing in Warren County Juvenile Court, saying she was “not serious” when she told fellow students on Aug. 26 that she wanted to do a mass shooting in order to commit “suicide by cop.”

On Thursday, Chief Magistrate Carolyn Duvelius gave the teen a suspended indefinite term of six months in a state facility. The girl was also sentenced to 90 days in the county Juvenile Detention Center but was given credit for the 79 days she has been held there since her arrest. The court suspended the remaining days of that sentence and scheduled her to be released today.

She has been placed in the custody of Warren County Children Services and must complete 50 hours of community service and drug, alcohol and other counseling.

In Other News
1
32 people were indicted in Butler and Warren counties
2
26 people were indicted in Butler and Warren counties
3
Glen Rogers, convicted serial killer from Hamilton, set to die in May
4
FBI arrests Warren County man accused of leaving explosive device at...
5
1 taken to hospital after SWAT standoff at Oxford apartments

About the Author

Follow Ed Richter on facebookFollow Ed Richter on twitter

Ed Richter has been a working journalist for 38 years, with the last 34 years working in various capacities covering Butler and Warren counties as a reporter and an editor. Richter covers local news and governments in Warren County focusing on Springboro, Lebanon, Franklin, Carlisle and Waynesville.