Fortuna Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Female, Allege Connection With Snapchat Threats
This information came from the Fortuna Police Department’s Facebook page. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:
On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at approximately 7:00 P.M., Fortuna Police received a report from school officials of a threat to students at Fortuna Union High School. The initial threat was received via Snapchat, and specifically stated that a shooting would occur at Fortuna Union High School on Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 12:45 P.M. An additional threat was also received via Snapchat threatening the Eel River Community School campus in Fortuna.
Fortuna Police coordinated with school administrators and local allied agencies to provide safety and security on the school campuses throughout the day. An investigative team, comprised of Fortuna and Eureka Detectives was also dedicated to the timely identification of the person responsible for posting the threats.
The investigative team, developed information identifying a 16-year old female who was responsible for posting the threats. The 16-year old was located and taken into custody at approximately 3:00 P.M. and was booked into the Humboldt County Juvenile Hall for making Criminal Threats. The identity of the 16-year old suspect is not being released due to her status as a juvenile.
The Fortuna Police Department would like to recognize and thank our allied agency partners for their timely response and assistance. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eureka Police Department, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, California Highway Patrol, Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office, Rio Dell Police Department, Cal-Fire Law Enforcement and Fortuna Volunteer Fire Department all assisted with this incident.
The Fortuna Police Department, Fortuna High School, Eel River Community School and local law enforcement remain committed to the ongoing safety of our schools and students.
Earlier: Fortuna Police Report That Statement Made to Students Via Snapchat Threatened Fortuna High
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Ok something needs to be done and she needs to be put in juvenile detention for more than a week before she us let go. She needs to face the consequences of what she has done.
Thank you, responders. God only knows how many lives you saved.
That’s gonna go on her permanent record.?
Here’s the worst punishment that they can give her – take her phone/computer and all internet access away from her until she becomes an adult.
Another “times have sure changed moment”! When I was in highschool back in the early ’60s, I along with two friends called the school cafeteria to comment on the quality of the product only to be found out and summoned to the vice-principal’s office with my dad the next day. Needless to say my USMC Capt father was not pleased but I learned proper institutional dishwashing and am still the dishwasher at home.
The penalty for this shit needs to be really extreme. Juvenile or not, it’s not funny.
The half-life of internet stupidity is about 3 minutes…
Please, grow the fuck up…
A big thank you to the Fortuna Police Department for their swift actions in finding this little brat so quickly and arresting her. They can’t take any chances with people who act like this. You never know if the person making the threats is going to go through with their plans to shoot up the school or not. She needs to get some serious juvenile hall detention time and be evaluated by a team that deals with these problems. To slap her hand and let her go could lead to something very serious like actually shooting up the school. This crap is scary as hell! Wonder if she is friends with the little punk from Rio Dell who pulled this last time? Thank God it was only a stupid damn prank.
Juvenile or not, she has threatened mass shootings. I think these are the kinds of people who should not be able to own a firearm.
I think what she has done will go on her permanent police record. Which should prevent her from purchasing a firearm when she becomes of legal age. The sad part is she can steal or purchase a gun from another criminal and use it now. Good gun laws can only do so much in preventing people that should not have a gun. There are thousands of guns not accounted for in this country making it impossible to stop every single one. But you must remember that it is not the gun that shot someone, it is the jackass who pulled the trigger.
Exactly. Statistically, a diagnosis of mental illness or a criminal record does not make someone more likely to commit a mass shooting.
Only one thing has been proven to be a reliable warning sign of someone committing a mass shooting in the future—threatening it. Like this girl just did. Keep an eye on her for the rest of her life.
I see a lot of people quick to ruin this girls life over saying stupid things, something we have all done at that age. I wonder does this girl really have access to a firearm? Is she really a threat, or just a lonely girl reaching for attention in a horrible way? There needs to be a proper evaluation to see if she is a credible threat or just someone that needs therapy. Question is do the parents have the resources to do this properly? Does the state? Who should be responsible even to make sure?
Just release her name, then she’ll get plenty of attention if you think that is needed. Maybe we just need her parents name, they raised her.
If anyone releases a minor’s name, banning is the likely result.
Kim, the people have a right to know her name, minor or not. Banning someone who does release her name is not right. What she has done, her name needs to be in the headlines. I agree with the Lone Ranger 100%.
You are entitled to your opinion. You are not entitled to break the rules of the website without consequences.
I have no intentions of breaking the website rules yet.
Too bad that the thing that could protect a minor from the consequences of their bad behavior- that the school, parents and police will deal with it effectively- has been so eroded by victim politics, where the goal seems to be to protect the criminal from society rather than society from the criminal, that any reaction other than voluntary counselling, will end up in a lawsuit against the school of police. And there it stops. There is no effective mental health standard that can act to stop any violence because those who have mental illness are protected from any involuntary commitment. Those whose mental health impairment rejects treatment because they don’t see the problem as their own are protected from treatment too.
“Most of the violent attacks in schools over the past decade were committed by students who telegraphed their intentions beforehand—and could have been prevented, a new report from the U.S. Secret Service concludes.”
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/most-school-shooters-showed-many-warning-signs-secret-service-report-finds/2019/11
People are not trying to ruin this girl’s life; she is doing it all by herself!