A North High School student is no longer attending the school after he allegedly tried to set off a firecracker to retaliate against a teacher who issued him an in-school suspension a day earlier.
The 14-year-old student faces criminal charges in Summit County Juvenile Court. A school district spokesman said the teenager is no longer attending the school, but declined to elaborate.
According to police and school reports, the teenager lit the firecracker — possibly an M-80 — inside a glue stick on Oct. 12. The firecracker, though, failed to detonate. Students said the boy threw it toward the teacher and it smoked, but never exploded.
School officials later found comments the boy made on social media accounts threatening to use a “grenade” to kill the teacher, referring to him by name. A note was also found on the glue stick reading, “You will pay,” and again referred to the teacher by name.
No one was injured in the incident.