18-year-old arrested for shouting racial slurs, firing paintball gun at Natick HS

NATICK, Mass. — An 18-year-old from Fall River was arrested on Thursday for driving around a high school while allegedly yelling racial slurs and firing a paintball gun.

Jacob Rodrigues stormed onto the grounds of Natick High School with his pickup truck and started yelling racist remarks at a group of minority students.

The students didn't respond, but police said Rodrigues showed the students the paintball gun and yelled, "you come over here and you'll get shot up."

According to Natick Police, Rodrigues also sent a Snapchat to at least one student with a video of himself making a gun motion with his hand and firing at the camera. In the video, he pans the camera over to show the paintball gun next to him on the seat.

As he drove off the school grounds, police said he fired the paintball gun into the air. Luckily, no one was injured.

Officers were able to apprehend him within 30 minutes.

According to a press release from the Superintendent’s Office, Rodrigues was not affiliated with the high school -- however the parent of the student who received the Snapchat believes he may know his daughter.

Rodrigues was set to be arriagned on Thursday at Natick District Court.

The incident remains under investigation.

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