Vermont Man Arrested Following Threats Toward School

[Webster]

Canaan parent cited transgender people in threat against school, court documents show

A Vermont judge has granted an Extreme Risk Protection Order to prevent Shane Gobeil from accessing dangerous weapons for at least six months. He faces harassment charges in New Hampshire,

vtdigger.org

Shane Gobeil threatened to “show up and kill somebody” at the Canaan Schools if his child — a student in the district — was approached by a transgender person or drag queen at school, according to a police affidavit.

Gobeil made the threat Monday at a New Hampshire store in the presence of two Canaan Schools students, ages 16 and 17, and later repeated it to Vermont State Police officers, according to police. “Don’t take what I said as a threat, take it as a promise,” Gobeil later told a responding Vermont State Police trooper, according to court documents.


The Canaan Schools, which include two separate buildings — an elementary school and a high school that share a campus — serve about 180 students. Both schools were closed Tuesday and Wednesday in response to the alleged threat.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

If a guy is that transphobic, he's probably repressed and wishes he could be a woman.

 

[duskpire]

Good. They can't take threats like that lightly. Just because someone is prejudice of something doesn't give them the right to issue innocent people a death sentence.