Victoria I. Perkins, 19, Greenfield
GREENFIELD — The former Greenfield-Central High School student who entered the school during school hours last week and then recorded the incident before sharing it online will not be charged with any crimes, officials from the Hancock County Prosecutor’s Office said.
Victoria I. Perkins, 19, 5000 block of 300N, Greenfield, was arrested shortly after she went into the school last week due to a completely separate incident the same day. She faces a charge of criminal trespass associated with an issue at the local Jimmy Johns food establishment where she used to work.
Prosecutor Brent Eaton said officials with the Greenfield Police Department have looked at the evidence surrounding Perkins’ visit to G-CHS last week and will not file charges.
“We put a 72-hour hold on her case so we could look into the situation further and, in the end, the decision was made to not file charges,” Eaton said.
Perkins, a 2022 G-CHS graduate, went into the high school Wednesday, April 26 without proper consent and proceeded to walk through the halls, going in and out of restrooms, all while video-recording a degrading rant aimed at the school’s administration, school resource officers and the safety measures at G-CHS.
The video shows Perkins talking to an officer who approached her after she had been in the school for more than 10 minutes and asked her to leave. She told the officer she was only in the building looking for her transcripts. However, in the more-than-10-minute video, Perkins made several comments, saying things like, “This is why you have bomb threats, because I’m in the building. Just kidding, I don’t have a bomb at all” and “Your school has no security, and I could’ve shot that school up.”
Perkins had her initial appearance on the separate Class A Misdemeanor criminal trespassing charge Thursday, May 4 in Hancock County Superior Court 2 via video. According to court records, Judge Dan Marshall entered a not guilty plea for Perkins and left the bond set at $600 cash. The charge carries a fixed term of not more than one year in jail.
According to a probable cause affidavit, officers where called to the Jimmy Johns, 1310 N. State Street, April 26. That’s where the store manager advised that Perkins, a former employee who had been trespassed from the property in March, drove through the drive-thru and flipped off one of the female employees.
Officers caught up with Perkins at the Thornwood Preserves and arrested her for violating her trespass at Jimmy Johns and not for the G-CHS incident. According to the probable cause, Perkins told officials it was a misunderstanding and she thought she could be on Jimmy Johns property, just not inside the fast-food shop, the affidavit said.
Officials noted in the report officials from the G-CHS district have since trespassed Perkins from Greenfield Central schools. Perkins was no longer listed as an inmate in the county jail by late Thursday morning. She’s due back in court for a pretrial conference in late June.
