BERKELEY, Mo. — A parent of a Berkeley Elementary School student was charged with making a terrorist threat to a school official.
According to the Berkeley Police Department, Tamika Stewart, 34, was called by the school to remove her child from the premises. When she arrived police said Vice Principal John Capuano was "restraining her child."
Police did not share details of how or why the vice principal restrained her child.
Stewart took her child to the hospital due to trouble breathing after being restrained, according to Berkeley's investigation report.
During the hospital visit, Stewart went on Facebook and police said she created a live video.
Police said she stated that she was upset in the video. Stewart made verbal threats to the school, police, the principal, other school employees and "whoever" was in her way. Police said she emphatically repeated these threats in the video.
"Ya'll gonna see me on the news. Woman kill police. Woman kill...whoever," Stewart said in the video, according to police.
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Office has charged Stewart with first-degree terrorist threat and first-degree harassment.
The court has ordered Stewart held on no bond.
The sentencing range for first-degree terrorist threat ranges from one day up to a year in jail and a maximum of seven years in prison and/or a fine of $10,000. The sentencing range for first-degree harassment ranges from one day up to four years in prison and/or a fine of $10,000.
