Edina High Schooler Responsible for Violent Threats Hoped to 'Cancel Classes': 2012 in Review

Edina Patch covered a lot of different stories, topics and events throughout 2012. That said, there were a few that stood out as the most interesting, important, touching or possibly infamous to our readers.

And as we near the end of 2012, we're looking back at those articles. The following is one of those stories.

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The 17-year-old student responsible for making threats of violence against Edina High School in October allegedly did so to get out of a day of classes, according to court documents.

Edina Police arrested the teen on Thursday, Oct. 4, after he allegedly wrote violent threats against his fellow EHS students online. The student faces one count of making terroristic threats, a felony level offense.

In a disturbing post on popular Internet forum 4chan, the anonymous user said he would "assault the school" using a sniper rifle from the nearby woods. The poster threatened to attack students in the school's common areas, then said he would "hit the school with an RPG like my friends in Libya." He also threatened to take his own life, provided he was not shot first.

The post also included a grim photograph of the two assailants who shot and killed fellow students before taking their own lives at Columbine High School in 1999.

Read more about the story here and here.

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