Alabama Teen Student Makes False School Shooting Threat On Snapchat, Arrested

A teenage student in Alabama was arrested Wednesday for falsely threatening a shooting at Weaver High School in a Snapchat post, police said.

Weaver Police Department identified the suspect as Brittany Hope Dorries, 19. Police said Dorries reported the post herself to them after posting it from an anonymous account. They said she confessed to making the threat when police interrogated her during an investigation.

She posted it on Snapchat because she apparently wanted to be checked out of school, according to police.

“Investigators discovered that the student who notified law enforcement was also the person who made the threatening Snapchat on a fake account. The investigation shows there was never a true threat to the school,” the Calhoun County Sheriff’s office said in a statement.

Dorries was charged with filing a false report to law enforcement and placed in the Calhoun County Jail.

Police said precautionary measures were being taken with the school’s safety in mind. “We will have an increase of Law Enforcement security at the school,” the statement added.

In October, a 12-year-old unidentified female student at Falcon Cove Middle School in Florida was arrested for posting a “death list” on Snapchat with the names of her fellow students as potential targets. She was charged with two counts of a written threat to kill and false reporting concerning a firearm.