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Parent tells Nantucket school committee her sixth-grader was threatened with shooting at home
Summary
A parent described an incident on the first day of school in which her sixth-grade son was threatened by an eighth-grade student with a claim that someone would "come to my child's house to shoot it up." The parent said school staff intervened in a fight but that she received no timely notification and plans to file a police report.
Tamika Gary, a parent, told the Nantucket School Committee Sept. 2 that her sixth-grade son was emotionally harmed on the first day of school after an eighth-grade student allegedly threatened to arrange a shooting at the family home. Gary described seeing her son upset after a group-chat dispute followed by an in-person altercation. "He is going to get a friend to come to my child's house to shoot it up," she said, reporting the alleged threat as told to her son. She said a teacher broke up the fight but that she and her husband were not notified by school…
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