Far scarier and dangerous than the 11-year-old who stole a cement truck is this bone-chilling foiled murder plot. Three first-graders (you read that right) in Anchorage, Alaska were caught before they could carry out their plan to poison and kill a fellow classmate. The three students have since been suspended according to their principal who told TV station KTUU.
The three students of the Winterberry Charter School were reportedly girls reports the Washington Post.
The girls allegedly planned to poison a female classmate with silica gel packets (which aren't poisonous) that they had gotten from their seaweed lunch Winterberry Principal Shanna Mall wrote in an email.
Parents of Winterberry's students were alerted about the foiled plot March 22 when Mall emailed them. According to school district officials the students admitted their plans to poison the other student. Citing police the Washington Postreports charges won't be filed against the girls despite them telling a school resource officer during an interview that they were trying to hurt the student.
The plot was foiled thanks to two first-graders who told school officials about it. Police said the plot was a part of an "ongoing feud" as the Washington Postwrites.
School district spokeswoman Heidi Embley said school administrators and psychologists spoke to the girls to find out maybe if it was just a prank gone too far.
"I'm not sure what we could criminally charge first-graders with," said police spokeswoman Jennifer Castro. "What ended up happening was the officer took each one of them individually, had a very a serious talk with all of them."
Police let the school discipline the girls and although it was not said what consequences they faced Mall allegedly told Anchorage television station KTUU the students were suspended.
