Thursday, 4:30 PM
Dighton-Rehoboth student allegedly made hit list
By Globe Staff
A 14-year-old Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School student is facing charges that he compiled a hit list of 15 youths.
"He had a list of people that he allegedly wanted to shoot," said Bristol County district attorney’s spokesman Gregg Miliote. Miliote said the list included the student's fellow high school students as well as some middle school students.
The teen faces 15 counts of making threats to kill and 15 counts of making threats with serious public alarm, Miliote said.
The teen is being held in a juvenile lockup after his arraignment yesterday afternoon in Taunton Juvenile Court. A hearing will be held tomorrow in the same court to determine if he poses a danger or can be releaased, Miliote said.
Dighton Police Chief Robert MacDonald said police had searched the Rehoboth teenager’s home but found no weapons.
He said a friend of the teenager had seen the list of 15 names, which was labeled “hit list,” and brought it to the attention of the school principal.
He credited school administrators with doing “a good job reporting this. As soon as they found out, they called us right away.”
