Fifth grade Indiana Catholic school teacher is arrested and fired after admitting she had a KILL LIST of co-workers and students she wanted to take out, before killing herself
- A teacher at an east Chicago school revealed to students that she had a ‘kill list’
- Angelica Carraquillo-Torres, 25, was arrested after confessing to the principal
- Parents are upset the principal took four hours to notify police of the confession
A fifth-grade teacher at an Indiana Catholic school has been arrested and fired for creating a ‘kill list’ of students and colleagues she wanted to murder.
Angelica Carraquillo-Torres, 25, a teacher at St. Stanislaus School in Chicago, was arrested on Thursday, the day after she told fifth-grade student Portia Jones that she had a ‘kill list’ and that she was suicidal.
Carraquillo-Torres said ‘she wanted to kill her middle school friends, her high school friends, and half of her family,’ Portia told CBS 2.
Portia recounted the comments made by her teacher during a meeting with another pupil, a teacher and her counsellor. During that meeting Portia said that Carraquillo-Torres also spoke about harming students.
Portia Jones told CBS 2: ‘She said she wanted to kill her middle school friends, her high school friends, and half of her family’
![St Stanislaus School in east Chicago is the Catholic school in which Angelica Carraquillo-Torres, 25, worked as a teacher](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/10/14/14/63472125-11315791-image-a-8_1665755542401.jpg)
St Stanislaus School in east Chicago is the Catholic school in which Angelica Carraquillo-Torres, 25, worked as a teacher
Immediately after her comments were reported the allegations were brought to the school’s principal, Angelica Foy. According to East Chicago Police Carraquillo-Torres admitted in that meeting with the principal that the ‘kill list’ existed and that at least one student was on it.
She was then told to leave the school and not to return until an investigation had been carried out. Four hours later Carraquillo-Torres was reported to police, they said in a press release.
Police attended the school at around 5pm that day and during an interview with the principal and assistant principal were told of the ‘kill list’ and that the teacher alluded to ‘killing herself, students and staff,’ an East Chicago Police statement said.
According to police Carraquillo-Torres did not turn over the list itself.
![Portia's father Quiannis Jones was disappointed that the principal let the teacher leave after confessing to having made a 'kill list'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/10/14/14/63472847-11315791-image-a-11_1665755920697.jpg)
Portia’s father Quiannis Jones was disappointed that the principal let the teacher leave after confessing to having made a ‘kill list’
![A parent of a student at the school, Kirsten Saldivar, said that the communication from the school was poor and an email they sent to parents made no reference to the list](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/10/14/15/63471607-11315791-A_parent_of_a_student_at_the_school_Kirsten_Saldivar_said_that_t-m-16_1665757628423.jpg)
A parent of a student at the school, Kirsten Saldivar, said that the communication from the school was poor and an email they sent to parents made no reference to the list
The following day police obtained an emergency detention order from the Lake County Prosecutors Office, police said in the statement. The next morning they arrested her and she was taken into custody at around 11.15am.
Many parents are frustrated that the school did not properly communicate with them.
Portia’s father, Quiannis Jones, said: ‘They should have never let her walk out them doors. They should have called the police right then and there.’
Another parent, Kirsten Saldivar, thought that the teacher should never have been allowed to leave the principal’s office after acknowledging that some of the allegations were true.
![St Stanislaus School principal Angelica Foy spoke with Carraquillo-Torres shortly after she was reported by a student. She contacted the police around four hours later](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/10/14/14/63471543-11315791-St_Stanislaus_School_principal_Angelica_Foy_spoke_with_Carraquil-a-12_1665755943475.jpg)
St Stanislaus School principal Angelica Foy spoke with Carraquillo-Torres shortly after she was reported by a student. She contacted the police around four hours later
‘You let somebody leave who’s making accusations and confirming them,’ she told Fox.
In an email sent to the parents by the school obtained by WGN9 the school failed to mention either the threats or the ‘kill list’.
In it the school said: ‘We were informed of a concerning report from a student regarding comments made by the student’s teacher.’
Saldivar said to Fox 32 Chicago: ‘The original email that we received last night had no information of what was going on other than there was an issue in that specific classroom.
‘We knew nothing and we went about our normal schools days like nothing was wrong.’
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