Grand Bay Middle School Student Arrested After Threatening Shooting
By: Dale Hines
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
December 20, 2025
GRAND BAY, Ala A student attending the Grand Bay Middle School was taken into custody Tuesday evening after Mobile County sheriff investigators were made aware of threats against the school by a person identified as someone who attends the school.
Once notified by school officials, the sheriff’s department immediately began an investigation of the threats against the school including threats of shooting up the school in messages in a group chat. Investigators said the student also posted an image of a handgun with an extended magazine posted in the thread.
It was first believed that there were multiple students involved, and once the investigation progressed, they determined there was one student,” said Mobile County Paul Burch.
Burch says the 14-year-old’s mother allowed investigators to search her Bayou La Batre home and they did not recover any guns. Burch says the student pulled the image of the gun from social media. Just because there wasn’t a gun doesn’t mean there wasn’t a threat, and the consequence is a criminal charge of making a terrorist threat in the second degree, which is a Class A misdemeanor.
“Once they hit that send button, there’s no taking it back. When it’s out there, it’s out there. And you know, especially if you look at what’s going on just this week around the country, and even last week, you know, when we had this attempt to get a pistol into one of the local high schools, those threats have to be taken seriously,” said Burch.
Burch urges parents to talk to their kids about the serious repercussions of making threats and to closely monitor what your kids are doing on their devices and on social media.
“You pay the bill. You have a right to view it, and you should, as a parent, stay on top of your child’s activities on the phone,” said Burch.
The unidentified teen was taken to the Strickland Youth Center.
A spokesperson for Mobile County Public Schools says law enforcement was at the school on Wednesday out of an abundance of caution, and the school operated on its normal schedule.
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