High School Student Jailed For Alleged Death Threats

By Lauren Grover
Tyler Morning Telegraph
EUSTACE — One week before graduation, a Eustace High School senior who suffers a behavioral disorder is in jail on a felony charge for allegedly making death threats to classmates despite school officials trying to pacify the situation.
Students and parents told administrators that 18-year-old Chris Underhill made a hit list of people he wanted to kill, testimonies that didn’t seem believable but required investigation, said Assistant Principal Rob Tyner on Saturday night.
No list has been found, he said, and calls he received were “very overdramatic, students and parents telling me they were No. 1 on the list.”
Though Underhill suffers an attention-deficit disorder that qualifies him for special education, he has excelled in mainstream classes, Tyner said. But his opinionated, attention-getting behavior stirs up trouble and draws harassment from other students, he said.
“He’s kind of starved for attention,” Tyner said. “Chris brings a lot of this harassment on himself … I think if these threats occurred it was him just running his head.”
Underhill was moved to alternative school last week so security could monitor him, searching him each day as they drove him to and from school, Tyner said. He was warned to quit any threats.
But on Monday an incident at the alternative school led officials to call police who later arrested Underhill on Thursday and booked him into the Henderson County Jail, Tyner said.
“I don’t know what else we could have done,” Tyner said. “We were just as concerned for Chris as Read the full story here.