Police: New Haven woman threatened ‘another Sandy Hook situation’ at Hamden High

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A New Haven woman who allegedly threatened there would be “another Sandy Hook situation” at Hamden High School was arraigned Wednesday in Superior Court in Meriden, according to judicial records.

Ajauanna Laudat, 21, was arrested Tuesday and charged with second-degree breach of peace, first-degree threatening and first-degree false incident report.

Laudat was released Wednesday on $75,000 bail, according to court records, and is due in court Feb. 14.

Laudat allegedly sent three anonymous threatening emails to staffers at Hamden High School Monday, according to an incident report by Detective Mark Sheppard.

The first email, received at approximately 9:24 a.m., indicated that the sender would “shoot up Hamden High School” without warning, so administrators would not have a chance to dismiss students.

Police were notified and the school was locked down, according to the report. Officers were sent to safeguard the interior and exterior of the building.

A second email came in at 9:46 a.m. from a different address, stating that “now it’s done” and “you’re all going to die now.”

A third email from a third address was received at 10:46 a.m., according to the report.

This message threatened that “there will be another Sandy Hook situation” at the school. It indicated that the sender and a team of individuals would set off a bomb at the school after shooting students.

According to the affadavit, the mail read: “Great [expletive] job. I feel like you don’t take me seriously. You want to keep kids here fine. There will be another Sandy Hook situation. My team and I have also planned to bomb the school after shooting as many kids as possible. Raising the threat was a bad idea. You don’t even have metal detectors. It was so (easy) bringing this in and acting like a student,” read the email, according to the report.

Sheppard contacted the Google Legal Affairs department, as all three emails came from Gmail accounts, and received the IP address used to send the emails, according to the report. In all three instances, it was the same.

That IP address was traced back to a Sprint mobile device, registered to a New Haven resident. Sheppard and another officer spoke with the person, who said Laudat used the number in question.

Police made contact with Laudat Monday. She said she was a paraprofessional at Hamden High and denied sending the threatening messages. She agreed to allow Hamden police to seize and search her cellphone as part of the investigation, according to the report.

A screenshot of “an email page” that listed one of the addresses that sent the threatening messages was found on the phone, according to the report.

Police interviewed Laudat again the next day.

“Ms. Laudat would eventually admit that she had sent the threatening e-mails to the HHS Administrators,” Sheppard wrote in the report.

A student told police that Laudat had asked about the school’s protocols for dealing with a threat in the preceeding days and “frequently complained about working all day in the school,” according to the report.

william.lambert@hearstmediact.com