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LaGrange High School student arrested for threatening to 'shoot up the school'

School threat
Posted at 4:28 PM, Oct 02, 2019
and last updated 2019-10-02 18:23:21-04

A student at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles was arrested, accused of making a threat to the school.

The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office says that detectives were notified Wednesday in reference to a threat from a student at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles.

During an investigation detectives learned a15-year-old boy was in the school office when he allegedly threatened to come back and shoot up the school. After interviewing the boy, who has not been identified, he was arrested and booked into the Juvenile Detention Center and charged with terrorizing.