Editor’s note: The Reporter is correcting the school involved in the incident report. The original blotter entry reported the student attended Tahoma High School. The student attended Tahoma Junior High. The rest of the blotter entry from the King County Sheriff’s Office was reported correctly.

On Friday, May 1, the spokesperson for Tahoma School District, Kevin Patterson, said, “The suspect is a Tahoma Junior High student, not high school, and an investigation failed to produce any such list.”

The Reporter is following up with this investigation.

The following is a letter sent to parents from the school district.

The Maple Valley Reporter, in its online and print Police Blotter section, reported on April 30 that a Tahoma High School student was investigated by police on April 21 for creating a “kill list.”

The report has an error and the alleged threat was later proven to be unfounded. The incident actually involved junior high students and an investigation revealed no viable threat. Here is what happened:

A Tahoma Junior High School student contacted police the evening of April 21 because a Tahoma Junior High friend told him about something he said he saw in a classroom a month before. As he was walking past a student’s desk, he said he saw the words “kill list” on a piece of paper in an open backpack; he didn’t see any names on the paper.  Police investigated and notified school authorities. The school conducted its own investigation and, in conjunction with the police, determined there was no viable threat.  The student’s parents were contacted and they fully cooperated with the investigation.

We understand the concern a report such as this creates.

The Maple Valley Reporter is correcting the error involving the school name.

The following is the information provided to The Reporter from the King County Sheriff’s Office:

THREATS

• On April 21 officers were informed that a student at Tahoma Junior High School had made a kill list. According to the report, the reporting party told officers they did not know the time frame for when the killings would be carried out.