11-Year-Old Girl Arrested For Making Hit List

An 11-year-old student of Tonawanda Middle School near Buffalo, New York took her grudges to the next level by creating a spreadsheet list with the names of nine other students and two teachers she said she wanted to kill.

The sixth-grader has been arrested and charged for 'making a terroristic threat' and suspended for 10 weeks.

The Excel spreadsheet file, called 'Killbook.xls', apparently was created on a school library computer in January and last modified April 7, says Youth Services Detective Tim Toth.

Aside from creating a hit list of names, which included sixth-and seventh-graders, the girl wrote a note by one teacher's name, that she wanted her killed "with a very, very, very, very, very sharp knife" and a gun.

Police are not releasing the girl's name because of her age.

"I don�t believe she had the means or even the actual foresight to carry this out," says said. "In my opinion, I think it was a young girl who was just venting at the time."

A fellow classmate reported the girl to a guidance counselor three weeks ago after sitting next to her at the school library computers after school, leaning back and catching a glimpse of her own name on the hit list.

Toth said the case was so unusual that he had to open up the penal code book at his desk to figure out what the sixth-grader should be charged with. While children this age sometimes make off-the-cuff remarks about wanting to kill other pupils, he says she was arrested because this girl went another step to organize her thoughts in a spreadsheet.

Toth says schools can no longer afford to take such matters lightly in the aftermath of recent school shootings.

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