KINGSTON — The Facebook messages that led to the arrest of two of three juveniles for intimidating witnesses in a school-threat case allegedly included comments of hunting the witnesses down and killing them.
The online discussion was mainly between two 17-year-olds about the identity of those who informed the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Department of Matthew Smiley’s alleged threats toward Kingston High School.
“Well gentlemen, we have our targets. How would we like to murder them?” a message written by one of the juvenile reads, according to the sheriff’s department.
The juveniles were arrested on Sept. 9 and booked into Kitsap County Youth Services Center on charges of felony harassment and witness intimidation.
Smiley was arrested Sept. 5 after the sheriff’s department was alerted by school security of his alleged threats to “shoot up the school.” Security was made aware of the threats by witnesses who had been in contact with Smiley. Smiley is in Kitsap County Jail on $2 million bail on a charge of making threats to kill.
In the Facebook discussion, one juvenile writes that a witness in the case “doesn’t even deserve to be here.”
“Who is he? I’ll [expletive] rip his intestines out and hang him with them.”
A third juvenile, 16, was arrested after posting Facebook messages inquiring into who told the sheriff’s department about Smiley’s alleged threats. In one post, the juvenile states Smiley has worked to get his life together and “does not deserve this.”
Smiley was expelled during the 2013-14 school year for dealing “large amounts of marijuana on campus,” according to the sheriff’s department’s statement of probable cause. According to Deputy Scott Wilson, the spokesman for the department, Smiley was “very angry” over the expulsion and his situation in life.
“If you know anything bout who told police this false intention of Matthew [Smiley] shooting out a school, please message me. Thank you,” the juvenile wrote.
Later messages from the 16-year-old included a short conversation with Sebastian Khalil Carroll, 19. Carroll was arrested at the Bremerton Department of Corrections Office on Sept. 10 and charged later with witness intimidation. As of Sept. 11, Carroll was in Kitsap County Jail on $250,000 bail on a charge of witness intimidation and on a charge of escape from community custody — no bail.
During their conversation, which included another person not identified by the sheriff’s department, Carroll — who goes by the name Sebastian Ketchum Holloway on Facebook — wrote “… if I could get names I will hunt this [expletive] down and personally hurt him myyself [sic].”
The 16-year-old juvenile thanked another person who commented and then wrote “… and message me sebastian [sic].”
