Social media school shooting threat in Stone County

A Stone County 15-year-old boy was placed under arrest today after a social media threat was found about killing students at Stone Middle and High School. Concerned parents showed up to pick up their children.
“I mean, they are teenagers, they worry about if they are going to get a girlfriend or what their next test is going to be, not being shot. This is crazy.” Virginia Powell was only one of the dozens of concerned parents who swarmed to Stone Middle School and High School to pick up their children after gaining knowledge of a bone-chilling social media post threatening to kill students.
Erica Fenton is a mother that picked her son up from school after the threats. She said, “I’m not leaving my son here when the school is being threatened to be shot. He is going home with me and be safe.”
The threat that read “killing people at Stone Middle School and high school” was posted to a fake Facebook account with the name of Vencent McCoy around 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday night. When Stone County authorities tracked the post to a local user, they jumped into action. Chief Phyllis Olds with the Stone County Sheriff’s Department said, “What we did was implement our safety plan. Everyone was assigned schools. We partnered up wherever you were at there was two people. There we covered both the middle school and the high school. Everyone that came in and out of buses they had to open their bags so that we could see them. The teachers that had to have on their credentials so when they walked across we knew they were teachers.”
The 15-year-old male student who made the threat is now in custody of the Stone County Sheriff’s Department and facing serious charges. “At this time, the child is going to be charged with cyberstalking which is a felony. Even though he has made the statement that it wasn’t meant to be anything, we have to take these things seriously because we don’t want it to happen in our community that we don’t take it seriously.”