Sixty minutes. That’s how long it took for a private Snapchat message to travel from Kristen Volpe’s phone to the FBI to the deputies standing in her elementary school hallway. On January 29, 2025, the 22-year-old student teacher at John L. Hensey Elementary in Washington, Illinois, vented to her boyfriend and two roommates — three people total — after a student closed her laptop mid-class and wiped her lesson plan. She referenced shooting the student or the school. She meant it as a frustrated joke. Snapchat’s algorithm didn’t get the humor.

Here’s what happened in sequence:

• A student closed Volpe’s laptop during class, deleting her lesson plan.
• Frustrated, she sent a private Snapchat message referencing shooting the child or the school — exact phrasing varies across reports.
• The message reached three recipients. Not a public Story. Three people she lived with or dated.
• Snapchat’s automated AI flagged the message and reported it to the FBI, which alerted the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies arrived at the school within roughly one hour.
• Volpe was arrested for disorderly conduct, held overnight at Tazewell County Jail, and released on $0 bond under Illinois’s SAFE-T Act. No formal court charges were filed. Her student-teaching placement was terminated.

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