Hamilton County, TN - On Friday, September 13, 2024, at approximately 12:00 noon, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office School Resource Deputy assigned to Normal Park Upper School was made aware of a possible threat against the school.

The SRD immediately began an investigation and after subsequent interviews with students, it was determined a male student had made comments of a racial nature while riding a school bus on Wednesday, September 11th. In addition to the racial comments, the student was overheard by students stating, “I’m going to shoot ya’ll up.”

The student was arrested and transported to the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center without incident.

The student is being charged with:

- Threat of Mass Violence on School Property

There is no threat to any of the students or faculty of the school at this time.

As this incident pertains to juveniles, no further information is available.