Friday update:
According to Brazos County online records, Alexandria Rivera was released from jail Friday after posting an $8,000 dollar bond.
Click below for comments from Brazos County sheriff’s chief deputy Jim Stewart, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver:
Original story:
For the second time in five days, a College Station school district high school student has been arrested for making a terroristic threat to their campus.
Brazos County sheriff’s office chief deputy Jim Stewart says Consolidated student Alexandria Rivera was arrested Thursday for making a threat on social media that was posted a week before the mass shooting in Florida.
According to the arrest report, a confidential informant told a school resource deputy and an assistant principal that Rivera posted she “wanted to shoot up the school and that no one was safe.”
The informant also said the post was immediately removed.
Rivera, who turns 18 on March 15th, denied posting on Snapchat. She admitted to making threatening statements, but she told an investigator and an assistant principal she was just joking.
Her arrest follows a separate incident where a 15 year old was taken into custody by College Station police last Saturday.
From the Brazos County sheriff’s office:
On February 20, 2018, a School Resource Deputy, assigned to the A&M Consolidated High School, received information that a student made threats towards the school.
Although the threat was at one point posted to a social media site prior to the Parkland, Florida school shooting, it was not brought to the attention of CSISD or law enforcement until this week.
Following a thorough investigation into the incident, the School Resource Deputy presented the case to the District Attorney’s Office for consideration.
An arrest warrant was subsequently obtained this (Wednesday) afternoon, and served by the Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect, Alexandria Rivera, a 17 year old student at A&M Consolidated High School, has been charged with ‘Terroristic Threat’, a Third Degree Felony, and booked into the Brazos County Jail.