Nov. 18, 2024 1p
(WGTD)---Despite a Milwaukee TV station’s misleading report, Kenosha Unified handled the recent threat at Roosevelt Elementary by the book, according to school district superintendent Jeff Weiss.
Two weeks ago, a middle school student showed up at Roosevelt with a backpack and a duffel bag. Security cameras showed the 13-year-old trying door handles, then being buzzed into a double-locked vestibule where he was questioned by a school staffer. The student then fled and was later arrested.
Weiss tells WGTD the middle school where the teen was enrolled did in fact receive a photo several weeks earlier of him holding what appeared to be a gun. The photo--not taken at school--was that of an air soft gun. The parents were questioned and they confirmed the gun was in fact a replica, Weiss said. No threats were made so the case was closed.
On the day of the incident, Roosevelt school staff did as they were trained, and as it turned out, all of the exterior doors that the teen had tried to enter were locked and secure, Weiss said.
Because of his actions at Roosevelt, the student was charged with making a terroristic threat. According to police, the boy told a social worker that he had wanted to scare students at the school. A competency hearing has been ordered by a judge.
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