Police have charged a woman they say threatened secretaries in the Pittsburgh Public Schools with physical harm.
Kemauri Vasciannie, 23, of the South Side Slopes was one of two women who police say entered John Morrow Elementary School at 1611 Davis Ave. in Brighton Heights under the guise of “wanting to enroll her child in school.”
On Feb. 5, officers were called to the K-8 school because of “combative adults causing a disturbance,” according to the criminal complaint.
Vasciannie was identified as a parent of a child attending John Morrow. The second woman was not identified in the complaint.
Officers on the scene were met by the school’s principal, who told police that two adult women entered the school “under false pretense,” the complaint says.
The women began threatening two secretaries with bodily harm and physical violence once inside the school, according to the criminal complaint, and they also threw metal objects at the secretaries, the principal said in the complaint.
Vasciannie alleged a secretary had hung up the phone on her when she called the school, and the secretary replied that she had ended the call because Vasciannie “was using profanity and she would not engage in that type of communication,” according to the complaint.
Then, Vasciannie threw a bottle of hand sanitizer and other items sitting on the counter at the secretaries, the complaint says.
She and the other woman threatened to return to the school at dismissal to “physically harm the secretaries,” the complaint says.
“I know when you get off, I’ll be up here at 4,” Vasciannie said, according to the complaint.
The women were escorted out of the building by employees, and they fled the scene when police arrived, the complaint says.
Vasciannie is being charged with two counts of terroristic threats, two counts of simple assault and two counts of harassment.