Boys ‘discussed school killing’
TWO Year 11 students of a country NSW high school discussed shooting fellow students and school staff in a Columbine-style massacre, it has been revealed.
The two boys, aged 16, are currently in psychiatric care after staff at Crookwell High School, northwest of Goulburn, were alerted to the plan.
The Daily Telegraph reports the two boys discussed carrying out a shooting rampage on an internet chat site and drew up a hit list of students and staff they planned to target.
However, on May 16, another student approached Crookwell High’s principal - who reportedly was on the hit list - and told him of student concerns.
Police were called in and interviewed a number of students about the matter before approaching one of the youths along with his parents.
He was taken to Goulburn Base Hospital for psychiatric assessment by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
The second youth was then taken for assessment.
Both are believed to be in the mental health wing of Goulburn Hospital and have not returned to the school.
The father of one of the youths reportedly had a licensed firearm.
Police said investigations were continuing.
An education department spokesman said the school had spoken to its students about the matter at assemblies and offered them counselling, as well as sending home a letter advising parents.
Student drew replica on teacher
Meanwhile, a 12-year-old boy who threatened a teacher with a replica pistol at a Western Sydney High School will be allowed to return to his school within 20 days after being suspended.
The boy drew the realistic-looking firearm on a female teacher in the playground of Plumpton High School on Monday after being caught playing tackle football.
The boy was sent to the principal’s office and staff of the school, near Mount Druitt in Sydney’s far west, called police, who arrested the child and seized the illegal replica.
Police took the boy to Mount Druitt police station and charged him with using a prohibited weapon and assault. He was given bail to appear in Cobham Children’s Court on June 12.
The Daily Telegraph reports the boy, a Year 7 student, did not comprehend the gravity of pulling the gun and had thought it was just “mucking around”.
The incident began when the female teacher noticed some boys playing tackle football about 1pm.
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