By Matt Sepic, KWMU
St. Louis – Police in the St. Louis suburb of St. Peters took a 16-year-old girl into custody Monday.
They say the Fort Zumwalt High School student wrote a message on a bathroom wall threatening to bring a gun to school.
St. Peters Police Sergeant Jim Schmidt says the girl has been referred to juvenile court with a charge of institutional vandalism and a more serious charge of making a terrorist threat.
"In the adult system it could either be a felony or a misdemeanor based on individual circumstances," Schmidt said. "In the juvenile court we just make the referral based on the state statute, and the juvenile court just deals with it from there."
Schmidt says additional officers were on duty Monday at the school.
Police arrested a student from Mount Olive High School in Illinois last week for allegedly making a similar threat.