Student’s hit list a bad joke, say police [View All]

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A 16-year-old Sterling High School sophomore was sitting in a science class Tuesday, asking people around him for their last names, and writing them down on a sheet of lined notebook paper. Someone finally asked him what he was doing.

“He told them, ‘I’m making a list of people I’m going to kill before I die,’” said Baytown Police Lt. David Alford. “That’s kind of like walking through an airport and saying you’ve got a bomb.”

The accused student is not a loner; he is fairly popular, runs track and does not fit the stereotypical description of a student who would carry out death threats, Alford said, but that does preclude him from being capable of it.

Police filed terroristic threat charges against the 16-year-old Tuesday evening, but the Harris County district attorney’s office refused to accept them. Alford said the police may have contacted the district attorney prematurely, before they had all the bases covered