Lake Orion Student Arrested for Threat That Kept Students Out of School
(OCSO, March 5, 2025)
Lake Orion, MI – A 16-year-old male student at Lake Orion High School was arrested Tuesday after making a threat that many people were going to die in a shooting at the school.
The student, a sophomore at the school, is being held in Oakland County Children’s Village on a charge of making a threat of violence against a school. A hearing was set this afternoon to determine next steps in the case.
“Once again, we have someone who made a threat against a school and through the diligent work of our team we were able to locate and subsequently arrest him,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. “Let me reiterate, if you make a threat, you will be tracked down and held to account.”
The threat was discovered by a resident who saw the threat on social media and alerted the Sheriff’s Office. The threat was made at 3 a.m. on Saturday and stated that on March 5, an unnamed person was going to shoot up the school “and many people will die.”
Using the Sheriff’s Office Computer Crimes Unit, detectives were able to obtain search warrants and identify the sender of the message. It was later determined the student had no access to a firearm in his home.
Bouchard said that because of the phony threat, 490 students called in sick on Monday, 255 students did not appear for school on Tuesday and 356 were missing today.
