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Seventh-grade girl arrested for threatening school principal, assaulting officer

Posted at 12:12 PM, May 25, 2018
and last updated 2018-05-25 13:13:38-04

A Palo Alto Middle School seventh-grader was arrested on Friday for threatening the school's principal and assaulting a Killeen Independent School District police officer, the district confirmed.

Killeen ISD Chief Communications Officer Terry Abbott said the 13-year-old girl made a verbal threat against the life of the principal before assaulting the officer.

She was charged with making a terroristic threat against a public servant, assault on a public servant and resisting arrest. She was brought to the Bell County Juvenile Detention facility.

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