Last week, court officials said the case was among 18 filed since a former student killed 17 students and school workers and wounded others on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland.
On April 30, the 17-year-old Lebanon boy punished by Kirby this week for violating his order is alleged to have threatened to take seven students to “paradise” and “blow the head off” his instructor in a lab at the Warren County Career Center.
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The boy also allegedly “was able to recite a ‘hit list’ of seven students to take to ‘paradise’ with him using gas in the school,” according to charging documents.
Kirby continues to explain to the students from districts across the county that threats will be taken seriously in the wake of shootings around the nation, including one in the Madison district in Butler County, and most recently at Santa Fe High School in Texas.
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The Lebanon boy in the career center case was detained until May 14, when he was released on the condition he attend school and other programs at the juvenile court complex in Lebanon, barred from “access to weapons” and barred from “using the Internet and social media unless for educational purposes or as agreed upon with the Court in this hearing,” according to the entry from the hearing.
Kirby is to revisit the case on July 2.
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