In December 2012, MLEC student Austin Lee Bowlin was arrested for threatening to shoot students at the school. Bowlin used his Twitter accounts to announce the threats. No weapons were found at his home. The situation resulted in Bowlin being suspended by the school. He stated that he was misunderstood, and intended for the tweets to be taken seriously, as he was upset that the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was not being taken seriously in his school.