Woman charged with threatening RES teacher

A Russellville woman is in custody after she threatened a Russellville Elementary School teacher on Thursday morning.

Sharon Lee Ramsey, 44, 2008 Liberty Avenue, has been charged with making a terrorist threat, Russellville Police Chief Chris Hargett said.

According to authorities, Ramsey’s special needs child was scheduled to go on a class field trip Wednesday but, because of inclement weather, the trip was cancelled.

When Ramsey took her child to school the next morning, she was informed that her daughter’s class trip had not been rescheduled, which made her upset.

According to reports, she asserted that the special needs children never got to take field trips and said that it was unfair. When the teacher tried to reason with her, she began to make threats.

Authorities said that Ramsey is accused of saying, “Maybe I’ll just come and do what they did down in Florida, but I don’t miss.” She was then accused of making hand gestures that looked like a gun to show she was talking about shooting someone.

The incident Ramsey was referencing was a shooting at the Panama City School Board meeting on Tuesday. The husband of a teacher who had been laid off came into the meeting and fired shots at school board members. No one was harmed except for the gunman who shot himself after the incident.

“In light of events that have happened at schools all over the country, we have to take things like this seriously,” Hargett said.

“People need to think about what they’re saying when they’re upset, especially in a school or government setting.

“Most of the time people don’t mean it when they make threats like that, but you never know. That’s why we will continue to take every threat of this nature seriously.”

Ramsey’s bond was set at $10,000 and she was set to be transferred to the Franklin County Jail on Friday afternoon.