Two Milford, Mass., middle-school students arrested last week for allegedly creating a “Death Note” listing the names of 33 classmates were released Monday without bail to the custody of their parents.
According to the Milford Daily News, the two will return to court on Jan. 22 for a pretrial conference.
The 12-year-old boy is charged with 23 counts of threatening to commit a crime and one count of disrupting a school assembly. The 13-year-old girl is charged with 10 counts of threatening to commit a crime and one count of disrupting a school assembly. Both are being charged as juveniles.
The students apparently were inspired by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s hit manga series, Death Note, which centers around a high school student who sets out to rid the world of evil using a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
This is my town so I just thought I’d say: WAY TO FUCKING GO MILFORD. Granted the kids were idiots for bringing the notes to class, but SERIOUSLY. They sell official death notes. My friend has one and we write stupid shit in if for fun. Are we going to get arrested too? D:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Just to let you know, those kids where told by other students that the should not be doing it, especially in school, but they didn’t care. Just to let you know, the police removed a gun that the father legally possessed from one of the houses. Maybe it wouldn’t have happened but maybe it would have. Ask the people at Virginia Tech if you should take threats seriously.