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Ga. Supreme Court upholds law on terroristic threats after challenge from Hall student
Lanier Career Academy student accused of threatening violence at school in 2014
Devon-Major
Devon Major
A law on terroristic threats has been upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court after a challenge from a Hall County student accused of threatening a Columbine-like attack. Devon Major, then a student at Lanier Charter Career Academy, was charged with terroristic threats after a September 2014 Facebook post that said he would get “the chopper out and make Columbine look childish.” Chopper is slang for gun, and the 1999 Columbine shootings in Littleton, Colo., killed 13 people.