Mill Creek community on edge after teen threatened to kill high schoolers

MILL CREEK, Wash. — A Henry M. Jackson High School student posted a video threatening to kill students, after years of terrorizing his own family. Court documents depict an out-of-control teenager who has most often turned his wrath on his own parents. His father said he knows about the video.

"Yeah, he had a problem, I don't know," he said. "It's something with his mind. I tell him you can't do that, because now the whole neighborhood going to hate him."

His son appears to have gone on a recent vandalism spree. He posted photographs standing beside profanity scrawled on school buildings.

Then he posted this chilling message. "Dear friends going to Jackson, I am aware that there will be a number of you on my head on the first day... I'm gonna be strapped and ready to kill at least 10 of you. That's all that matters to me. I don't care if the rest of you beat my (expletive) and I get life or death penalty, I promise you I will take 10 lives on the first day."

It has been a long, sad summer for Henry M. Jackson High School.  Nearly three weeks ago, three students were killed in an early morning crash.  And now this threat.

"It's kind of frightening because the child obviously had problems in the past," said Sarah Lowe, whose daughter attends Jackson High. "Had vandalized and now he was headed here in the fall.”

His family is now being targeted. Last night, someone threw eggs at their Mill Creek house and slashed a tire on his father's car.

"We live here," he said. "So there's a problem."

The Snohomish County Juvenile Court judge set the teenager's bail at just $25, a sum his parents could easily pay.  Then he would be released from the Denny Juvenile Detention Center in Everett. But they say they won't pay for now.

The teenager is supposed to be a freshman at Henry M. Jackson High School starting next month.

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