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Teen Faces Terrorism Charge for Simulated School Shooting

A 15-year-old student at H.L. Bourgeois High School has been arrested after he posted a YouTube video of him appearing to gun down his classmates in a first-person shooter game.

September 16, 2013
Teen Faces Terrorism Charge for Simulated School Shooting

App screenshot via WGNO.

A 15-year-old student at H.L. Bourgeois High School has been arrested after he posted a YouTube video of him appearing to gun down his classmates in a first-person shooter game.

The teen has been charged with terrorizing and interference with the operation of a school, reports WVUE . Authorites have not named him because he's not an adult.

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He used a mobile app called "The Real Strike, First Person Shooter" to take video of his classmates and superimpose their images to make it look like he was shooting them.