Facebook threats taken very seriously

On February 22, 2018, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

By Jim Clark

Somerville Police received a tip last Saturday that a man, later identified as Tyreek Smith, of Medford, had posted threats of violence on Facebook.

In investigating the matter, police located the post in question, dated February 17, wherein Smith reportedly stated, “I wanna shoot up a school that s**t would be fun, just shooting a whole bunch of people who think the matter in the head.”

Smith reportedly added the hashtags #imnottho and #sikeyaneveerno. followed by #sueme.

The post reportedly got a comment from a female mentioned the Full Circle School in Somerville. Other people responded to the post as well.

More information was gathered that Smith is the younger brother of someone who is well known to the SPD and could have access to fire arms.

Smith was subsequently located and placed under arrest, charged with false bomb threat and threat to commit a crime.

 

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