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 been charged with making terrorist threats. Seventeen year old Austin Hill made his initial Fond du Lac court appearance this week. Judge Robert Wirtz ordered $2000 cash bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for January 26th. 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 6th period, 12:30.” Police determined the note was not a credible threat, but stepped up security at the school. 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. Another 16-year-old student dropped the note in the hallway outside the boys’ bathroom near the English pod. That student was referred to juvenile authorities for being party to the crime of making a terrorist threat.
