Social media threats targeting Henrico schools prompt extra security measures
Henrico Citizen, December 16, 2021
Several non-credible social media threats targeting Virginia schools appeared following the Nov. 30 shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan that left four dead. “There’s a contagion effect that we know about in terms of suicides, shootings, bad things happening, and people copycat what they see,” said Dr. Jeff Temple, a professor and psychologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch who studies adolescent violence. “Coupled with the real adolescent mental health crisis caused by COVID and everything else, we’re seeing more and more of this.”