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Students who posted shooting threats charged with terrorism, mass violence threats

Posted at 6:37 pm December 8, 2021
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Oak Ridge High School was on lockdown on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, after administrators were made aware of a shooting threat posted on social media. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

The Oak Ridge Police Department has charged three students with terrorism and threats of mass violence after they allegedly made school shooting threats in two separate incidents on social media on Monday and Tuesday.

The charges were filed in Anderson County Juvenile Court on Wednesday afternoon, and the court authorized the detention of the children in the Richard L. Bean Detention Facility in Knox County. The children were taken into custody Wednesday afternoon, Seventh Judicial District Attorney General Dave Clark said.

All three juveniles were charged with terrorism, threat of mass violence on school property, and false report. Two of the children were allegedly involved in a shooting threat posted on Snapchat on Monday, and they were also charged with conspiracy. That threat led to a lockdown at Oak Ridge High School on Monday. The third child was allegedly involved in a separate shooting threat that was posted on Snapchat on Tuesday, and that student will face the first three charges.

Clark said the children are required to have a detention hearing quickly under Tennessee law, and that hearing could occur as soon as Thursday afternoon in Anderson County Juvenile Court.

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Filed Under: Anderson County, Courts, Courts, Education, Front Page News, K-12, Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Slider Tagged With: Anderson County Juvenile Court, conspiracy, Dave Clark, false report, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge Police Department, Oak Ridge Schools, ORPD, shooting threat, terrorism, threats of mass violence on school property

Former nurse indicted on false report charge in prisoner death

Posted at 11:23 am March 12, 2015
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Billy Joe Brockman

Billy Joe Brockman

A former nurse at the Anderson County Detention Facility has been charged with filing a false report in the death of a prisoner in July 2014, authorities said.

An autopsy revealed that the prisoner, Christopher C. Sullivan, died accidentally from a combination of alcohol and morphine, Anderson County District Attorney General Dave Clark said in a press release.

An indictment against the former nurse, Billy Joe Brockman, 49, of Clinton, “indicates that he unlawfully reported to Anderson County Sheriff’s Department investigators that he had measured and recorded the vital signs of Christopher C. Sullivan while knowing that he had, in fact, not measured or recorded the information,” Clark said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: alcohol, Anderson County Circuit and Criminal Court, Anderson County Detention Facility, Anderson County district attorney genera, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, Billy Joe Brockman, Christopher C. Sullivan, DA, Dave Clark, false report, Jeff Davis, morphine, Oak Ridge Police Department

Worried about city judge’s reaction, tenant concocted home invasion story after alleged rampage, police say

Posted at 8:00 am November 8, 2013
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An Oak Ridge man who allegedly went on a rampage and broke bedroom windows inside his home concocted a story about a home invasion to try to avoid trouble with his landlord, City Judge Lawrence Tunnell, authorities said.

Derek Scott Fitzpatrick, 26, has been charged with false reporting, a felony. He remained jailed at the Anderson County Detention Facility in Clinton early Friday morning.

The alleged home invasion on North Hollywood Circle was reported one week ago at about 1 a.m. Friday, Nov. 1. The Oak Ridge Police Department quickly set up a perimeter in the Highland View neighborhood and searched for the two suspects for about 30 minutes before “finding out the story was made up,” Officer Garrett Robbins said in an affidavit filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: assault, Beverly Circle, Butler Road, Derek Scott Fitzpatrick, false report, false reporting, Garrett Robbins, hoax, Hollywood Circle, home invasion, Lawrence Tunnell, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, robbery

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