Teacher threatened to shoot class of children for not listening to him: 'I've got bullets and a gun'

A Louisiana teacher has been arrested aft allegedly threatening to sprout his 3rd people students during a disgraceful outburst. 

DailyMail.com has obtained an exclusive mugshot of Robert Mitcham, 70, a carnal acquisition teacher astatine Downsville Community Charter School successful Downsville, Louisiana.

Mitcham, 70, reportedly told his 3rd people students helium ‘had bullets for his gun’ and helium would ‘bring it to the schoolhouse and shoot.’

The teacher and former-coach, from Ruston, Louisiana, allegedly further stated that ‘some of the students would not survive.’

Local instrumentality enforcement began an probe into Mitcham conscionable 2 days aft a acrophobic parent's study to deputies that their kid ‘was scared’ arsenic were different students successful the class.

The Union Parish Sheriff’s Department on with its Criminal Investigations Division interviewed students who witnessed the incident. 

Several students’ testimonies surfaced caller accusation arsenic Mitcham allegedly told the students ‘there were excessively galore of y’all to get escaped of,’ and helium ‘only had six bullets successful his gun.’

Witnesses besides claimed erstwhile an older pupil informed different schoolhouse unit subordinate of the incidental that Mitcham apologized to his students - admitting his wrongdoing.

Deputies who spoke with Mitcham stated ‘he felt overwhelmed and conscionable wanted the children to settee down,’ and that helium ‘was not threatening them.’

A warrant was subsequently requested for Mitcham’s arrest, which would yet hap connected September 12.

He was transported and booked into the Union Parish Detention Center and charged with 1 number of terrorizing.

Mitcham’s enslaved was acceptable astatine $15,000 and pending the result of his lawsuit the former-coach volition beryllium barred from the DCCS campus.

Parents brought their mounting concerns to a Board of Directors gathering pursuing the incident.

One of the paramount concerns addressed astatine the gathering was the deficiency of connection from administration.

‘We arsenic parents merit to cognize what is going connected successful our school,’ Kimberly Chappell, a acrophobic genitor told KNOE News.

‘At the extremity of the time you person to pass with the parents astir the information of their kids,' Chappell continued expressing her dissatisfaction.

Mayor of Downsville, Reggie Skains, was besides successful attendance astatine the meeting, expressing his ‘disappointment’ implicit the schoolhouse administration’s deficiency of communication.

Tony Cain, the school’s main said the schoolhouse is not legally allowed to publically remark connected the situation.

‘We bash privation to marque it wide that the allegations by the genitor reporting to the Union Parish Sheriff’s Office and those successful societal media are NOT accordant with the first-hand accounts provided to schoolhouse unit from the students who really witnessed the incident. We consciousness assured that the students were truthful and close with their accounting of the incident,” helium said.