Teen's Facebook threat reported to Olmsted deputies

Olmsted County sheriff's deputies investigated a Facebook threat allegedly made by a teenager who they say planned to bring a gun to high school and shoot other students.

Sgt. Scott Behrns says the 17-year-old Oronoco boy threatened a female classmate at Pine Island High School on the social Internet site and said he would kill her and a "few other students."

Behrns says the girl and her mother contacted the sheriff's department Thursday night. Investigators talked to the boy and his parents and learned that he had been continually harassed at school, but apparently had no intention of hurting anyone.

Behrns says sheriff's investigators determined it wasn't a legitimate threat because there were no weapons in the boy's home. He says "the moral of the story is that you should be careful of what you write on Facebook.

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Information from: Post-Bulletin, http://www.postbulletin.com

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