"Threatening to kill children"... High school student who posted threats in parents' group chat arrested with detention warrant

The police have applied for an arrest warrant for a teenage high school student who posted threatening messages about killing children in a group chat room of elementary school parents.

On the 13th, the Incheon Western Police Station announced that they applied for an arrest warrant for teenage high school student A on charges of intimidation and obstruction of official duties by deception. A is suspected of posting a threatening message in a KakaoTalk group chat room of parents at an elementary school in Seo-gu, Incheon, at around 9:35 a.m. on the 11th, saying, "I will kill all the children when they go to and from school."

At that time, he posted a message saying, "I will kill all the children after getting the coordinates of ○○ Elementary School," along with a photo of his hand holding a car steering wheel. This group chat room, where parent volunteers who help children commute to and from school gather, is known to be an open chat room that anyone can freely enter without a password.

Threatening Message Posted in Parents' KakaoTalk Group Chat [Yonhap News]

One parent reported to 112 at around 11 a.m. on the 11th, saying, "A threatening message was posted in the KakaoTalk chat room," and the police urgently arrested A in Chungnam at around 8:15 p.m. that day. It was confirmed that although A's home address is in Incheon, he attends a school in Chungnam.

It was investigated that A committed the crime by entering the chat room exposed at the top while searching KakaoTalk open chat rooms. In the police investigation, he claimed, "I posted the message as a joke and got scared, so I immediately left the group chat."

A police official said, "We considered charges of attempted murder, but since A did not specify the targets of the crime, we only applied charges such as intimidation," and added, "Considering the possibility of reoffending, we applied for an arrest warrant."

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