I'm so sorry. It was a dumb joke. That wasn't funny, but I didn't realize how uh really serious it was. Teenager jokes about blowing up the school on Snapchat. FBI shows up, cops swarm in, and she thinks she's walking away clean. On February 5th of 2024, officers in Villa Park, Illinois were notified by the FBI about a threat made against a local high school on Snapchat. Despite her innocent act, the suspect's account had already been flagged for months for racially derogatory comments made against her classmates. Hello. Hi. Hi. So, mom's on the phone just as a courtesy. Um, I know she's got track practice today, so we want to make sure that you guys at the school knew and what you guys want to decide as far as what she's going to do. So, you can explain that. Do you mind? Okay. So this morning, um, I made a post to my private story on Snapchat to my two to my private story on Snapchat Snapchat. There we go. It was just to two friends. Um, and it just said something about how I hate slow walkers and like something like something along the lines of shooting up the school basically. Um, and Snapchat flagged it and they locked my account. Like I I can't even show you what the post is because I don't have access to my Snapchat account anymore. And um yeah, we got notified from the FBI about this snap because it came back to an IP address. I I'm assuming here. Yeah. And her living here. Um but you did you snap this at the school? Yes. Okay. This was like during passing period and second period. Okay. So it was actually not reported by these I believe it just from Snapchat the FBI to us. Yeah. cuz no one even saw it. Like cuz since there was only two people like it had not even gotten no one could have even screenshotted it to spread it around like it's not like a thing. It was just a dumb joke that profile. And did you get the FBI a do we have the I go check but and um no weapons in the house. Right, mom? Mom, no weapons. No weapons in the house. No FO cards, no no history, no arrest, no You're 18, right? Correct. Yep. So, and she's got track practice today. So, okay. Well, uh track practice is not going to happen. Okay. Um Okay. I don't need to talk to mommy. You're 18. So, I I'll talk to Can I talk to mom? I'll talk I'm Mr. Tate. I'm assistant principal at the school. And so, how you doing, mom? I'm good. How are you? I'm doing okay. So, um, just in our protocols, just want to make sure you understand. Um, obviously, we have to get this cleared through, you know, it's got to go through the FBI to the police, and then everything's got to get cleared through the police before we even can talk about her coming back to track or even school. Um, and then we have to get all the information. And I know I heard like somewhat of the story from your daughter, like I was saying something with the shooting. We have to actually see what was written and then we go from there. So, I'm going to ask her to keep her at home until it gets all processed out. It might take a day or two. Once we have it processed out, um then we'll give you a call and her call cuz police Yes. if she's 18, she gets to make that decisions. But how school school board works is they said, you know, you live in your parents' house, so your parents still have to say till you graduate, right? Because, you know, so um so right now a lot of stuff's got to get cleared up, Mom, before she can come back to school. Um just because we don't want to Oops. Okay. Okay. All right. And mom, just so you know, right now, she can get her assignments and all that stuff, right? That's no problem. Yeah, we can we can inform um teachers and and staff about Google Classroom and if it goes too long, which I don't think it will, but if it goes way too long, then we generally get her on what's called a VLA program, a virtual learning academy, so that she can do her work from there. Okay. Okay. Okay, Mom, just so you're aware right now, I'm going to take uh your daughter to the police department, okay? And we're going to have a conversation there. Victor 56 status. I'm sorry. One more time, Mom. Where you going? to the police department to the Villa Park Police. Okay. Okay. You can't you should be waiting in the lobby till we're done. Okay. I'm sorry. Um he says that you would just have to wait. Let me get a Okay. Love you. Bye. Okay. Let's uh work on putting some shoes on. Are you able to address? Um, do you need to come in here? I'm just I can't leave you alone right now. If you have a some sort of ID, you bring that with you. Okay. Um, it's in my car and I grab them on the way out. Yep. Absolutely. Sorry, my room's a mess. Don't worry. Hey, I was a teenager, too, once. There's no other defendant in the house that you're looking over. Just you? Um, yeah. Uh, right now it's just me. My brother lives here. Uh, he's at his my dad's house. Okay. My hands are separated. All right. Lock up. Do you have anything on you? No, I don't even have pockets. Okay. All right. Thank you. Um, this is my right here. All right. Go ahead and grab your ID. All right. Miss Well, just so you understand what's going to go what's going to happen right now. We're just going to go to the station to talk. You are not under arrest right now. Okay. Okay. Uh, I have to call the FBI. Okay. Obviously, you understand this is up here now. Yeah. I Okay. So, uh, we're going to find out what, uh, what they have to say and then we'll go from there. Okay. Okay. I am so sorry. Again, I apologize to these officers and I should apologize to you as well. Um, it was a dumb joke that wasn't funny that I didn't realize how uh really serious it was. Um, I believe you know that now. So, we just got to go through the motions here and then Yeah. the more the school goes to the, you know, the cooperation and all that stuff and the clarity and the transparency, the easier it is for people to move on, you know, and you get back to the business of getting ready for ISU, right? Yeah. Put on your seat belt and I'll meet you at the station now. Okay. Okay. Oh, okay. Gotcha. There you go. She's taken to the local station where an investigator, clearly irritated his time's been wasted, starts questioning her. And in your own words, what what did you put on there? Um, it was like uh like I'm a slow walker, but I'm not a snail. Like uh I'm so annoyed. Like everyone's walking so slow. Like I like what I say. I'm trying to think of the correct wording. I said something like, "I'm literally gonna shoot the place up or something." Well, this is what's gonna happen right now. I'm still waiting for the FBI to call me back. In a minute, you're going to grab your phone uh and ask you to forward me those um emails from Snapchat. Uh I don't know what Snapchat's policy is at all. I'll have to contact them. in the appropriate time. Right now is not the time that um just understand that you are 18. This isn't even though you started off at school this school normally if you were under the age of 18 you would still be dealing with the school uh and their process. Now they're still there still going to happen. They're probably going to wait for me to let them know uh specific information and then um I'm going to have to screen this with the states attorney. Can you explain that? So the state's attorney is the court system in DuPage. Mhm. Um I have to call them and I have to explain to them what I have. Um and then pretty much they will decide, not us. They'll decide if they are going to want to charge you criminally for doing this. Okay. I have no control under that. I I don't know what they'll say. Tell you the truth, at this point, they're not I I can't even call them right now cuz I don't have that screenshot. I don't know officially and I'm being very honest with you, okay? I don't know uh until I have that physically to have to show them because they're gonna ask for it. Okay. Um but that's that's where you're at right now. Then at this point you are not in custody because I don't have evidence. I have what you're saying, which is, you know, your statement, but I have to physically be able to see that that Snapchat and it that could take a couple days. Okay. Now, I very I appreciate your honesty. You've been very honest with me and I, you know, I hope that you feel that um I've been very honest with you. I'm trying to explain to you the process. Um there's multiple possibilities. I don't know what this was going to. The suspect was not charged with terroristic threats in good faith that she would not repeat her inappropriate behavior. 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