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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 Vol. 43, No. 20 0382-2439
Charges announced in Eastpointe school threat akozlowski@candgnews.com allard@candgnews.com
EASTPOINTE — A juvenile has been charged with making terrorist threats after she allegedly called into her school multiple
times declaring that she would commit a mass shooting. The original incident occurred early in the afternoon Aug. 29, when a staff member at Eastpointe High School reportedly received multiple threatening phone calls from an unknown female sus-
pect who sounded like a teenager. During the first call, the suspect allegedly asked for permission to have two students released from school, claiming a relative was sick in the hospital. But when asked to identify herself, she reportedly made a
threat to shoot the caller and other students at the school, mentioning that she lives close by before hanging up. The suspect is said by police to have called back and made similar threats multiple times in a short period of time. Eastpointe police said they
immediately got involved, with road patrol officers, detectives and operatives with the Special Investigation Unit all at the scene, securing the school. Meanwhile, police said they used the phone number to identify the suspect, a 16-yearSee THREAT on page 21A
Students go ‘gaga’ over new game that Eagle Scout built
Roseville High School junior Lucas Sides, third from left, made a gaga pit for the students at Kaiser Elementary School as his Eagle Scout project. Pictured with him and Kaiser Elementary School Principal Kelly Grider are fourth grade students, from left, Gracie Farley, Carsyn Eaton, Jason Walker, and Aubrie Ballard.
BY MARIA ALLARD allard@candgnews.com
ROSEVILLE — There’s a new game in town, and the students at Kaiser Elementary in Roseville Community Schools have gone “gaga” over it. The popular activity of playing gaga was made possible at the school when Roseville High School junior Lucas Sides made a wooden pit specifically for the students to play the game. Sides, a member of Boy Scouts of America Troop No. 1407 out of St. Margaret of Scotland in St. Clair Shores, built the gaga pit as his project to become an Eagle Scout. The Eagle Scout project is the final requirement to obtain the highest rank within the Boy Scouts of America organization. There are many steps to earning the rank of Eagle Scout, includ-
Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
See GAGA on page 20A
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