METHUEN — A 15-year-old high-school student has been suspended and will receive a summons to appear in Lawrence Juvenile Court after he threatened a teacher and assumed a fighting stance, police said.
School Resource Officer David Mambro was sent to a disturbance at the school about 9 a.m. Tuesday and spoke to the teacher, who told him the boy had threatened him.
The teacher said the student told him, "I will snuff you (expletive)" and assumed a fighting stance during the confrontation. The term snuff is slang and refers to causing serious bodily harm or killing a person, police said.
Police said the threat was made in front of other students who confirmed the teacher's account of the incident.
The student will be charged with threatening to commit a crime, serious bodily harm, police said.
School officials confirmed late yesterday that the student had been suspended from school for making the threat.
