Kansas Girl, 13, Charged With Felony For Making “Gun-Like Hand Gesture” Toward Classmates
by Elias Marat
ZeroHedge.com
Sun, 10/13/2019
A 13-year-old girl in Overland Park, Kansas, was arrested last month and charged with a felony after police say her classmates claim she made a “gun-like hand gesture” at multiple students.
The girl, who is a student at Westridge Middle School, flashed the “finger gun” at four fellow students and then toward herself on September 18 after her classmates asked her which five people in the classroom she would kill, said Overland Park Police Chief Frank Donchez.
The student, who remains unidentified due to laws protecting her privacy, was arrested and charged the day following the incident for threatening a mass shooting, according to the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office. The girl admitted to threatening others, the police have said.
Donchez told USA Today:
“Overnight, some of those students contacted the school administration and expressed their fear of this individual, that based on this incident, they were in genuine fear of this individual.”
The context of the conversation remains unclear but the girl is now living in California, according to the Kansas City Star.
The girl’s grandfather, Jon Cavanaugh, says that she was simply mouthing off. He told the Star:
“I think that this is something that probably could have been handled in the principal’s office and got completely out of hand.”
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