Tipp City school and police officials testified Tuesday that a seventh grader admitted writing a threat on a cafeteria table Feb. 20, stating at one point it was “a dumb choice.”

The testimony came in Miami County Juvenile Court during the an adjudication hearing for a 14-year-old charged with felony inducing panic along with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and aggravated menacing.

The teen sat at the defense table with his mother and attorney Andrew Wannemacher. He did not testify. He has been released from juvenile detention on electronically monitored house arrest.

Judge W. McGregor Dixon Jr. took the testimony from six witnesses and verbal arguments of Wannemacher and Rob Long, an assistant county prosecutor, under advisement. He will issue a written decision. If convicted of the felony, the teen could be sentenced to detention until age 21.

The boy is one of two Tipp City schools students accused of making five threats at Tippecanoe High School and Middle School between Feb. 13 and 20. Each boy is accused of making one threat.

Charges have not been filed in three threats. Tipp City police continue to investigate.

The second student charged, a 15-year-old high school freshman, is being held at the West Central Juvenile Detention Facility north of Troy. A hearing on a motion for his release is scheduled for Wednesday.

The 14 year old was accused of writing a threat in pencil on a cafeteria table during study hall near the end of the school day Feb. 19. A sixth grader found the threat the following morning and told a teacher. The 15 year old is accused of writing the first threat Feb. 13 on a high school bathroom wall.

Shane Mead, Tippecanoe Middle School assistant principal, testified he interviewed the 14 year old after school staff determined who had been at the table in the hours before the threat was found.

Mead said the boy initially denied involvement, but then came clean. “He looked right at me and said, ‘I did it,’” Mead said.

The boy also wrote a confession and at one point said he “was screwin’ around … trying to be funny,” Mead added.

Police Detective Sgt. Chris Graham said the boy told him he “didn’t know why” he wrote on the table and had “made a dumb choice.”

Wannemacher asked the judge to dismiss the charges, a motion that was denied.