A death threat against a coach Wednesday afternoon landed a fourth-grade student at Fessenden Elementary School in hot water.
A Marion County sheriff’s deputy who serves as the school’s resource officer was contacted by the guidance counselor, who reported that the student was in gym class and got upset. The counselor said the student told the coach “if that ever happened again, he would kill him,” a sheriff’s office report states.
The counselor said she performed a threat assessment on the 9-year-old student and he scored low. She said she talked with him and she is confident he isn’t a threat and would never say something like that again, the report says.
The deputy also spoke with the student, who said “he understands it was wrong and a stupid thing to say.” The student also told the deputy “he will do better and not make threats anymore,” the report says.
The school contacted the boy’s parents and was handling disciplinary action, the report says, adding that he deputy made the sheriff’s office’s juvenile division aware of the situation.
Last week, another incident involving the school resource officer took place at Fessenden Elementary when a fifth-grader was suspended for bringing a toy gun to school. The deputy checked the crying student’s backpack and took possession of “an old toy cap gun.”