Hamilton County, TN - On Tuesday, August 27, 2024, around noon, the Hamilton County School Resource Deputy (SRD) assigned to the Chattanooga Preparatory School was made aware of a threat a student made while in class.

The SRD began an investigation and discovered that a 14-year-old student made a statement in a classroom full of other students and a teacher that they were going to “Burn down the classroom.”

The juvenile student was arrested and transported to the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center and charged with making a Threat of Mass Violence on School Property.

As this pertains to a juvenile, no further details are available.