Girls charged with conspiring to kill classmates, Oprah

[almaty 19]

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (AP) -- Six girls at a rural high school were charged with homicide conspiracy after their principal found a list of 300 names and officials discovered online postings suggesting they kill people, authorities said Thursday.

School officials said the list, discovered in a classroom trash can, mostly named students and faculty members but also included Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey and the Energizer Bunny.

Sequatchie County High School Principal Tommy Layne said that he initially considered it a joke, but that authorities then found the ninth-graders' online MySpace pages and postings that included the word "kill."

"In general terms, it was like, 'Let's kill these people,' " Dunlap Police Chief Clint Huth said. He declined to provide the specific wording on the posting, which has been removed.

"I am not saying we thwarted a shooting incident or an act of violence," Huth said. "On the other hand, had this gone unchecked, down the road it could have grown into something a whole lot more serious than a list of names."

There was no evidence that the girls had weapons or that an attack had been imminent, Huth said.

The girls, ages 14 and 15, were charged with conspiracy to commit criminal homicide late Wednesday and taken to a juvenile facility. A juvenile court detention hearing was set Friday in Dunlap, about 40 miles northwest of Chattanooga.

Layne said he learned about the list Tuesday when a "young man came in with his grandmother and said his name was on the list."

No club or group was involved, said Layne, who described the girls as friends. The school has more than 600 students.

Sophomore Lakyn Ledford stayed home Thursday after learning that student-athletes were on the list.

"I was very scared. My friends were scared. That's a scary thing. It can really happen," she told WTVC-TV.

should have let them kill off that annoying effing energizer rabbit

Edited January 26, 2007 by almaty

[Ban Hammer 13,335]

girls gone wild?

[almaty 19]

girls gone wild?

yeap..tennessee style

[Savanphil 3]

school can't be that bad......good grief

[Alex+R 0]

That's ridiculous. Just some teenage note-passing, IMO.

[Irisheyes 0]

I think it kinda goes to show how desensitized kids have become to death, violence, etc. Not a big deal to them! I did my share of note passing too, but it was about bad hair and nasty clothes!

[Killer_Clown_2009 0]

Ah well, better that they learn now, not to f*ch around with making death threats.