Man who called Sandy Hook Elementary School to ask when it would reopen after 2012 shooting is arrested for making threats on the first day of class.
A 28-year-old man was arrested for making threats to Sandy Hook Elementary School on the first day of class since it was demolished after the 2012 shooting.
Pierre Beauvil called the main office at the school on August 15 and made a threat for August 29 after an administrator responded to his inquiry about the first day of class, police said.
On Monday, about 400 students entered the newly designed $50million school in Newton, Connecticut, erected on the site where gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 first-graders and six staff members before committing suicide.
Beauvil made threats after he called the office asking when the school in Newtown, Connecticut was scheduled to reopen, police said.
Investigators tracked the phone number down to Beauvil, who lives in the nearby city of Stamford, about 35 miles away.
He was arrested on Friday and charged with first-degree threatening, second-degree harassment and breach of peace,.
An investigation is ongoing to determine whether Beauvil is responsible for other school threats.
- Pierre Beauvil called the main office at the school on August 15 and made a threat for August 29 after an administrator responded to his inquiry
- Investigators tracked the phone number down to Beauvil, who lives in Stamford, about 35 miles away from Newtown, Connecticut
- The newly designed $50million school opened on Monday to replace the original buildings demolished after the 2012 shooting
- Adam Lanza killed his mother and drove to the school where he fatally shot 20 first-graders and six staff members before committing suicide
