Hopefully any guns this kid could have access to were confiscated.
From Bangor Daily News: http://bangordailynews.com/2013/03/29/news/penobscot/teen-summoned-for-threatening-to-shoot-east-millinocket-transgender-student/
By Nick Sambides Jr
March 29, 2013
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — An East Millinocket teenager has been suspended from Schenck High School and is being evaluated by juvenile court authorities after he was issued a summons for threatening a transgender student, officials said Friday.
The boy, 15, was issued a summons for terrorizing on March 5 after he allegedly threatened to shoot the 18-year-old senior, who was born female and identifies as a male, because he objected to the way the transgender student dressed, police said. The Bangor Daily News is not naming the accused boy because he is a juvenile and is not naming the transgender student because he is allegedly a victim.
“There were some comments made towards [the transgender student’s] sexual orientation, I guess you could say,” said East Millinocket police Officer Kevin Giberson, who investigated the incident. “There were some threats toward [the student’s] life. It rose beyond what you could call typical bullying toward the [student] – if there is such a thing as typical bullying — and that is when we stepped in.”
The threat occurred during a bus ride home on Feb. 15. The transgender student told his parents, who alerted police the following week, Giberson said. Giberson interviewed a half-dozen people, including some present when the alleged threat occurred, before issuing the summons, he said. The interviews took several weeks.
“February [school] vacation kind of got in the way of it,” Giberson said of the interview process.
The East Millinocket School Committee voted unanimously during a meeting about two weeks ago to suspend the student until the end of the school year, AOS 66 Superintendent Quenten Clark said Friday. The issue took several meetings to resolve.
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