Shooting Plan Averted At CCS

Clinton Central School District and the community continue this week to process and move on from a school shooting plot by three CCS Middle School students.

CCS Superintendent Christopher Clancy has scheduled a Community Forum at the Performing Arts Theater Wednesday, April 22 at 7 p.m.

“This will be an opportunity for us to come together as a community, to hear from our law enforcement partners, and to engage in an open and respectful dialogue,’’ he wrote Thursday evening in the latest of several communications he made to the CCS community during the week.

Clancy and Oneida County law enforcement personnel, led by Oneida County Sheriff, Robert Maciol, conducted a press conference at the Sheriff’s Department in Oriskany the afternoon of Monday, April 13.

Maciol said about 60 hours earlier, at 1:42 a.m. that past Saturday, a call came in about content seen on social media.

A CCS student told a parent, who then called the Sheriff’s Department.

Maciiol said deputies went to the Town of Kirkland home of the student who made the remarks on social media.

He said the student had threatened that a shooting would happen in the Clinton Middle School cafeteria Friday, April.

Clancy canceled school for last Friday to allow the CCS community a day to rest from the strain of the week.

Maciol said at the Kirkland home a mental health check was made on a 14-year-old female CCS Middle School student.

He said she was transported to Wynn Hospital for a mental health evaluation. In additional, deputies ...