School Security Meeting Monday At Wall High School

A meeting Monday night at the Wall High School is scheduled to discuss school security issues following the discovery of a former student's violent plot to harm scores of classmates.

 The community-wide meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday in the high school's gym and is expected to address security issues following a wave of community concern.

The former student, whose name is being withheld because of his age, will be charged in juvenile court with harassment, creating a false public alarm and making terroristic threats, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday.

The student’s court date is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 23 in Freehold before Judge James J. McGann.  Unlike adult court cases, juvenile court hearings are closed the public.

The boy faces a possible sentence of two years probation, officials have said.

District officials in April found a note containing general, but violent threats and removed the student from the Central School and he was never allowed to attend the Intermediate School this September. He has been attending an alternative education program, officials have said.

The note led to a police investigation in which a computer was seized, and a plan that named 40 district students at the Intermediate School and some celebrities as possible targets for violence and was found, authorities have said.

Wall Police at first called the plan “elaborate,’’ and compared it to a “Columbine’’ or “Newtown’’ mass casualty event. The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office later said those comparisons were inaccurate and called the plan “non-specific.’’

“We believe it was more of a fantasy-type thing he had,’’ Wall Police Lt. John Brockriede has said. “Not something he was capable of actually carrying out.’’