Crime

Jamestown Teen Charged In Connection To Social Media Threats To Schools

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published September 21, 2021 at 5:04 PM EDT

A Guilford County teen has been charged with making threats against area schools.

High Point police say they started getting tips Monday night that someone had posted threats on social media mentioning several Guilford County schools and including images of firearms.

Police did not say which schools were mentioned.

Kayshaun Williams, 18, of Jamestown, is charged with a false report of mass violence on educational property.

Williams was found at his home and questioned by police. He is being held at the High Point Jail under a $250,000 bond.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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Jamestown Teen Charged In Connection To Social Media Threats To Schools

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