A third Clay County teenager is being charged for his alleged role in a school shooting plot that shut down the county's schools for days earlier this month.
Lt. Michael Baylous, spokesman for the State Police, said Thursday that a 13-year-old Clay boy was charged with making terroristic threats, conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation to commit murder.
Another 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, both of Clay, were already facing the same charges, police said Monday.
A juvenile detention hearing for the third teenager was held on Thursday.
Baylous said police don't anticipate further charges. "Unless any further information is brought up that we're unaware of, it doesn't appear that there will be any more arrests," he said.
Police are not releasing the boys' names because of their ages.
Clay County schools were closed May 4, 5 and 6 while police investigated threats that Clay County Middle students allegedly made about shooting classmates and teachers, Superintendent Kenneth Tanner said previously.
School officials had received a tip on April 26 that a middle school student had made threats about shooting people at the school on April 20 - the 17th anniversary of the attack by two students at Columbine High School, in Colorado. Tanner said he believed the students didn't carry out the attack on April 20 because they wanted to recruit more students and get more guns.
Three students were removed from the school for their alleged involvement in the threats, Tanner said on May 4. School officials closed all Clay schools, not just the middle school.
Teachers at the middle school found out about the alleged threats and alerted the principal, according to Sgt. B.L. Keefer of the State Police detachment in Clay. The school's principal contacted county school officials and the State Police.
Tanner said Thursday the arrests had created a "sigh of relief" among students and teachers.
"I think it'll take a long time before we have a sense of safety and security equal to what we had before," he said. "... But it's certainly a lot quieter than what it was a couple weeks ago."
Baylous and Keefer in Clay both asked residents to call the Clay detachment if they are aware of any other students involved.
"Unless new information comes in, we basically have the three persons we can possibly charge," Keefer said.
Clay County Prosecutor Jim Samples first said "I don't know what you're referring to" then said it was the office policy not to comment on juvenile investigations.
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