On Tuesday, October 4 at just before 8:00 a.m., the Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted the Alaska State Troopers reporting that a 16-year-old male resident of Homer made multiple comments on a TikTok livestream earlier that morning threatening to commit a school shooting.
The unidentified male made further threatening statements towards the person conducting the livestream. Due to not knowing which school on the southern Kenai Peninsula was in danger, AST contacted the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District and Homer Police Department about possible threats to the schools in the area.
Based on the information, all of the schools in that area were placed into a soft lockdown, which is a technique used to respond to a potential threat in the surrounding area, but still allows classroom instruction to continue.
The unidentified male was contacted at his residence and after AST interviewed him, he was placed under arrest for Terroristic Threatening in the 2nd Degree. The male was transported and remanded into the Kenai Peninsula Youth Facility.
Once the male was placed into custody, the KPBSD was notified, and the lockdowns were lifted.
