A teenager at a school in Fresno, California was arrested and placed in a juvenile detention center after Eminem lyrics referencing a school shooting were posted to his Instagram account.
The Fresno Bee reported that the 15-year-old was charged with making terrorist threats and disrupting school activity after officials at San Joaquin High School became aware of the post and contacted police.
The lyrics posted were from the rapper’s song “I’m Back,” which mention the 1999 deadly Columbine shooting. Monday’s post was taken so seriously that classes at the school were canceled on Tuesday as a precaution.
“I take seven [kids] from [Columbine], stand ’em all in line/ Add an AK-47, a revolver, a nine/ A MAC-11 and it oughta solve the problem of mine/ And that’s a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time/ ’Cause (I’m) Shady, they call me as crazy/ As the world was over this whole Y2K thing.”
Authorities said the boy wrote the lyrics almost exactly the same as the Eminem original, but changed up a line to say “I’m just like Shady,” rather than “I’m Shady.”
Even more troubling is that another student offered to help carry out an attack and when police searched the teen’s home they found several firearms, ammunition and a bulletproof vest.
However, 6ABC noted that the boy’s attorney has said that his client did not post the lyrics and his social media account was hacked.
Investigators are looking into that as well as claims that the boy had been bullied at school for some time.
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