TAYLOR (WWJ) -- Another metro Detroit high school student is coming face-to-face with the law after making a school threat.
A student at Taylor High School was arrested after a threatening note was found in a school bathroom Tuesday afternoon that prompted a brief lockdown.
Police said the note indicated a shooting would take place at 1 p.m.
The lockdown started around 12:45 p.m. while Taylor police responded to the school and began a thorough investigation.
The lockdown was lifted around 2:20 p.m. and administrators were told by officials that it was safe to dismiss students.
In a social media post addressing the incident, Taylor High School officials wrote that students who make threats will continue to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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“We’d like to thank the Taylor Police Department and our Security Department for their quick, thorough investigation and the hard work they continue to put in when these situations arise,” the Taylor School District posted on its website.
In the weeks following the Nov. 30 mass shooting at Oxford High School -- where 11 people were shot and 4 were killed -- school threats were on the rise, but have seemed to diminish in January.
Since then, dozens of cases involving students who made threats towards local schools have been charged by the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. Although many of those cases involved social media threats, several were similar to this incident where a threatening note was found in a school bathroom.
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