Bradford City Police were dispatched to Bradford Area High School at 2:54 p.m. on Tuesday for reports of a students allegedly making threats to kill several students.
According to police, 18-year-old James Buck was in math class and threatened to kill a student. Buck proceeded to make threats to several other students in the same class, also threatening to kill them.
After learning of the reported threats, police officers detained and interrogated Buck. Amid the interrogation, Buck confessed to police that he had been “raging that day” and was “seeing red” while making the threats to other students, police alleged.
Bradford City Police worked in conjunction with the school district’s administration and the McKean County District Attorney’s office in the investigation.
Buck was charged with terroristic threats, a first-degree misdemeanor; disorderly conduct, a third-degree misdemeanor; and harassment, a summary offense. Buck was arraigned by District Judge Dominic Cercone, who remanded Buck to jail on $5,000 cash bail.
Police said there is no further threat at the high school regarding this incident, and the school is safe.