A Greenbrier High School student was jailed Wednesday after allegedly threatening to shoot everyone in his class if he “didn’t pass a test,” authorities said.
Hasan Yasin Jordan, 17, was charged with terroristic threats and acts — the same charge filed in September against a Lakeside High School teacher who reportedly made a similar comment about students.
This week’s incident occurred Wednesday afternoon at the high school on Riverwood Parkway in Evans. According to an arrest warrant, Jordan “told a teacher that if he didn’t pass a test, he would shoot everyone in the class, with the intent to terrorize and intimidate,” a statement witnessed by three other students.
In a letter to parents, Principal Chip Fulmer said the student was immediately removed from class and “held accountable according to the code of conduct and the law.” Fulmer urged families to talk with their students “about the dangers of making inappropriate or threatening comments, even in a joking manner, and the serious consequences that will follow.”
Jordan’s arrest comes two months after the high-profile arrest of veteran Lakeside High School teacher Jerry Meitin. According to an arrest warrant, Meitin allegedly said he would shoot his students multiple times “if he had a gun,” an act described as being done “in reckless disregard of the risk of causing terror.”
Following Meitin’s arrest, members of the community raised more than $35,000 for his legal fees and bond through a GoFundMe campaign organized by a former student, George Zhou. “The person I’ve been reading about in the news is not the man I know,” Zhou said.
In a recent interview with WRDW, Meitin said his comment was intended as a joke and that students were laughing at the time. “Anyone who knows me … they all know without a doubt that I did not threaten my students,” he told WRDW’s Meredith Anderson.
It is not clear whether Jordan, the Greenbrier student, also meant his comment as a joke. Charges against both Jordan and Meitin remain pending.
