A grade five teacher at a school in northwestern Indiana has been harged with felony and intimidation on Friday after allegedly telling a student she had a list of students and staff, to be killed.
Angelica Carrasquillo, 25, of Griffith issues “a threat to commit murder," Lake County court documents said.
She was confronted by officials at her school, St. Stanislaus in East Chicago, and escorted from the building Wednesday afternoon, the Diocese of Gary said in a message to parents.
When Carrasquillo was asked on Wednesday why she wanted to kill herself and others, she reportedly told school officials, “I’m having trouble with my mental health, and sometimes the kids do not listen in the classroom. I also have trauma caused when I went to high school.”
The threat was discovered when the counselor overhead a fifth-grader saying “I heard Ms. Carrasquillo wants to kill herself and has a list.”
The student reportedly said Carrasquillo voiced the threat to him directly and told the student he was on the list.
The principal and an assistant principal said Carrasquillo gave them the name of one of the students marked down to be killed but failed to reveal names of the others.
Carrasquillo allegedly told school officials “she was only joking about it all.”
East Chicago police said they are obtaining an emergency detention order for the teacher from the Lake County Prosecutor’s Office.
She is currently in police custody at her home while investigation continues.
