2-9-18 fdl teenager convicted of writing threatening note at fdl high school

A former Fond du Lac High School student has been convicted of writing a threatening note found in a hallway at Fond du Lac High School last year.   At a hearing Thursday 18 year old Austin Hill pleaded no contest to party to the crime of making terrorist threats.   Fond du Lac judge Dale English ordered an imposed and stayed 45 day jail sentence and a year on probation.  Hill  is  able to petition the court for expungement if he successfully completes conditions of his sentence.  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.