By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
The teen charged in May with allegedly saying he intended to go on a shooting rampage at a Princeton public school later allegedly sought to intimidate a witness in the case, Princeton Police said.
The 15-year-old was charged with witness tampering, police said in their monthly report for May made available to the public. In it, police said they boy — previously identified as a student at John Witherspoon School — had said “multiple” times that “he was going to bring a gun to school and shoot students and teachers.”
Charged with terroristic threats, he allegedly went on social media to post comments “about a witness to his actions in an effort to intimidate the witness,” the report claimed.
“The boy was placed on the electronic monitoring bracelet for home detention pending court proceedings,” the report said.
The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday directed questions about the case to police.
In response to the original incident May 11, authorities said the boy did not have “access” to a gun.
