More school threats

COLUMBUS – More central Ohio high school students were charged in connection with threatening school violence, even as a suburban district canceled classes Tuesday in the face of multiple threats.

(UPDATE 2/27/18 3:18 p.m.)

The Groveport-Madison Local Schools closed its school buildings after learning of threats, which police investigated, resulting in the arrests of two students, according to a Tweet from the district.

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A 16-year-old student at Hilliard Darby High School was charged with inducing panic for fabricating a threat which police say he posted and forwarded to other students, according to a release from Hilliard police.

A 17-year-old is facing additional charges, including carrying a concealed weapon, after police found a firearm over the weekend which they believe Demarius Braxton hid when he ran away from Westerville South High School on Friday after an anonymous caller had warned that a student at the school had a gun.

Braxton was arrested Friday and charged with a misdemeanor count of inducing panic and a felony count of tampering with evidence. Charges of carrying a concealed weapon, conveyance/possession of a deadly weapon in a school safety zone, and receiving stolen property on Monday, according to Lt. Ron McMillin of Westerville Division of Police.

Braxton was still in the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center Monday, McMillin said.

Dublin police charged Emery Toth, a 17-year-old Coffman High School student, with aggravated menacing and making false alarms after learning from an anonymous tip to the Dublin City Schools helpline that Toth had made comments about shooting other students.