The Great Clown Panic of 2016 has reached Pennsylvania, where police have arrested a teenager for - allegedly - trying to hire a clown to kill an adult. There was one local report of "threats against local schools", then things got ... specific.
According to WAVY, a publication in Hampton, Virginia, a 13-year-old student at Davis Middle School allegedly contacted a person on social media using a clown image as their profile picture and alias. Why? Oh, just to ask them to murder her teacher.
WAVY reports that
Police say the person she contacted was using a clown image as their profile picture. She allegedly reached out to this person to murder a teacher at Davis Middle School.
“The profile that she contacted actually was using a clown as a profile picture and so using a clown related alias,” Officer Ashley Jenrette of Hampton Police said.
Meanwhile, in Louisiana, a student threatened a school with clown-related violence, apparently:
A 14-year old female student from Airline High School has been arrested and charged with terrorizing by detectives with the Bossier Sheriff's Office. She set up a fake Instagram account in which she made serious threats to the school.
In the fake account, she used a fictitious name that included the word “clown,” in keeping with a current fashion involving the depiction of depraved, vicious clowns.
Clowns are now a byword for terror.
(thanks to Bethany Leigh and Ed Webb)
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