A Porterville 14-year-old was arrested for allegedly threatening the lives of five other high school students.
Porterville Police said the suspect, a high school boy, confessed to sending out text messages to the five others on a thread in which he made death threats directly to each of the victims, identifying them by name.
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The text chain also included the suspect himself. Police said he likely did that to exclude himself as a suspect.
The teenager was booked into the custody of the Tulare County Juvenile Detention Facility on Tuesday on the felony charge of criminal threats.
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Detectives traced the text messages to the boy by contacting cellphone carriers and administrators of the texting app.
All six boys - the five victims and the suspect - knew each other and attend Porterville area high schools.