Overview
- Police say a Renaissance Charter School student sent emails around 12:30 p.m. from a school account to more than 300 recipients threatening to kill Jews and referencing a 2:00 p.m. attack.
- Officers arrested the 17-year-old at the school roughly three hours later on charges of making a terroristic threat and aggravated harassment as a hate crime.
- The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating, and the student’s arraignment in Queens Criminal Court was pending as of Tuesday.
- Reporting indicates the school briefly went into lockdown before resuming normal operations, and officials said no one was harmed.
- Administrators plan a special assembly with a Holocaust survivor, while city data show a 182% year-over-year rise in antisemitic hate crimes in January.