A senior at New Manchester High School was arrested Monday morning for allegedly posting a note on Twitter last week threatening to blow up the Douglas County school.
The arrest was the third in less than a week involving threatened or planned violence at a northwest metro high school.
Douglas County sheriff’s Major Tommy Wheeler said Reginald Wright, 17, was arrested at New Manchester on Monday morning.
Wheeler told the AJC that Wright has admitted to making a Twitter posting on Friday that read, “I’m gonna blow up New Manchester, fear me grrr!!”
“He said he doesn’t know why he did it, he just did it,” Wheeler said.
Wheeler said investigators learned of the Twitter posting Sunday evening, "and tried to locate him last night."
“We could have done it a little quicker, but Twitter’s policy wouldn’t allow them to give us the information on who he was unless there was a present and immediate threat,” Wheeler said.
Wright is being held in the Douglas County Jail on charges of making terroristic threats and disrupting a public school.
Wright was the second New Manchester student arrested in less than a week for allegedly threatening or planning violence at the school, which opened last fall in southern Douglas County.
Joshua Ray Couch, 17, was arrested Tuesday after investigators determined that he had been researching ways to launch a chemical attack at the school, according to authorities.
Couch was charged with criminal attempt to commit an act of terrorism and is being held without bond Monday in the county jail.
After deputies were tipped off about Couch’s plans, investigators searched his computer and found evidence of searches on hazardous materials such as cyanide, Wheeler said.
In neighboring Paulding County, Dustin Wade England, 17, was arrested Wednesday after allegedly admitting that he threatened in a Facebook post to shoot students at Hiram High School. England was released from jail on Friday after posting $7,900 bond.
Staff writer Alexis Stevens contributed to this article.
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