An 18-year-old Medora High School student faces an intimidation charge in connection with an incident Thursday in which he threatened to shoot students and turn the gun on himself, police report.
Willis Lee Weddell Abell of Medora was arrested on the Level 6 charge near his residence, just a few blocks away from the school on George Street, after the incident reported at 3:20 p.m., Jackson County Officer Jeff Walters said.
“I had just left there after teaching D.A.R.E.,” Walters said. “The principal (Chrystal Street) called me and said a teacher had told her that seven minutes before school ended, he (Abell) had become upset and said he was going to go get an AK-47 and come back and shoot students and then himself.”
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