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Teen charged with making shooting threat toward Franklin County school district
By Jenna Wise/ PennLive
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A 14-year-old boy has been charged with threatening a Waynesboro school shooting on social media, which prompted the district to cancel all Wednesday classes, police said.
Local police and the FBI determined the 14-year-old created a social media account and posted a photo of a masked person holding a gun, with a caption that said students should not go to school, police said.
The person named on the account was not involved in making the threat, police said.
Waynesboro police searched a Harrison Avenue home around 5 p.m. Wednesday and later took the 14-year-old into custody.
The teen, who was not identified because of his age, is charged with one misdemeanor count of terroristic threats and one felony count of criminal use of a communications facility, police said. He is being held in a detention facility while he awaits a court hearing.
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