A Kentucky high schooler "was in jail Friday, charged with threatening an armed takeover of his school," reports the Associated Press:
William Poole, a junior at George Rogers Clark High School ( http://www.clark.k12.ky.us/grc/ ) in Winchester, was arrested Thursday at school on a terroristic threatening charge.
The arrest came after a tip from a family member that Pool [sic] was trying to "recruit a gang to take over the school," Detective Berl Perdue said.
"He didn't have a gang, but he was attempting to organize one," Perdue said.
But Lexington's WLEX-TV ( http://www.lex18.com/global/story.asp?s=2989614 ) tells a different story:
Poole told LEX 18 that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding. He claims that what his grandparents found in his journal and turned into police was a short story he wrote for English class.
"My story is based on fiction," said Poole, who faces a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. "It's a fake story. I made it up. I've been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school over ran [sic] by zombies."
No word whether they're planning to charge Poole with a bias crime for singling out ambulatory metabolically challenged Americans.
William Poole, a junior at George Rogers Clark High School ( http://www.clark.k12.ky.us/grc/ ) in Winchester, was arrested Thursday at school on a terroristic threatening charge.
The arrest came after a tip from a family member that Pool [sic] was trying to "recruit a gang to take over the school," Detective Berl Perdue said.
"He didn't have a gang, but he was attempting to organize one," Perdue said.
But Lexington's WLEX-TV ( http://www.lex18.com/global/story.asp?s=2989614 ) tells a different story:
Poole told LEX 18 that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding. He claims that what his grandparents found in his journal and turned into police was a short story he wrote for English class.
"My story is based on fiction," said Poole, who faces a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. "It's a fake story. I made it up. I've been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school over ran [sic] by zombies."
No word whether they're planning to charge Poole with a bias crime for singling out ambulatory metabolically challenged Americans.
