A story broadcast Wednesday night on KETV (Cox Channel 9) revealed that a Millard West student had threatened to "shoot everyone" at the school, during an online conversation with his girlfriend.Millard Public Schools officials said Thursday they were not aware of the situation until KETV reported it.
KETV is not revealing how it learned of the chat transcript between the two students, but did report that the transcript was filed as part of a protection order filed by the girl's mother against the boy who made the threat.
The transcript reads in part, "They can take me into the office and I'll grab Deputy Shepard's gun and ... shoot everyone."
5 comments:
Good news to know but shows KETV is still trailer park news. Tell your source?
Strongly agreed. KETV will never rise over the BIG SIX in ratings, they don't have anything over the news gang at 6. WOWT has been number one for many years and I don't see them being unseated from that spot anytime soon! All rise for the presiding leader, WOWT. Hail WOWT! Hail WOWT!
why would millard not know until ketv broadcast it? wouldn't the reporter have contacted someone at the school for more information?
That is pretty shady that KETV wouldn't even call the school to prepare them for it. Sounds like they are taking advice from the city council & OPS.
Hey, this is Owen. I did the story on the Millard West threat. Just to allay your concerns, yeah, of course we contacted Millard Schools about the incident. That's why there's an interview with a district administrator in the story.
What it sounds like to me is that school board members apparently didn't hear about the incident initially. The school's staff felt it had sufficiently taken care of the situation (a position I tried to state in the story).
I don't know if the school PR people contacted the board members, or they found out when it hit the air... but once it went out, that's when they decided they needed to take action as well.
As for how we learned about the chat transcript... like every other outlet, we're constantly checking police reports and court documents for anything out of the ordinary. Sometimes you catch something other people don't.
If I can help clear up anything else, let me know. Well, anything but personal in-house stuff, like John Campbell's weird jello feti-- uhh... never mind. j/k
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