1-27-17 fhs student who wrote threatening note waives preliminary hearing

A Fond du Lac High School student who wrote a threatening note found in a hallway at Fond du Lac High School this month has waived his preliminary hearing.  Seventeen year old Austin Hill was bound over for trial on a charge of making terrorist threats.   According to a criminal complaint Hill wrote on the note,  “Open at your own risk”  It included rap lyrics with a racial slur and the statement “going to shoot up the school tomorrow 6^th period,  12:30.”  Hill told investigators it was a “stupid mistake.”   According to the complaint police received a tip from another student that Hill wrote the note after he was prompted by other students to get them out of school.  Police determined the note was not a credible threat, but stepped up security at the school.  Another 16-year-old student dropped the note in the hallway outside the boys’ bathroom near the English wing.  That student was referred to juvenile authorities for being party to the crime of making a terrorist threat.