Source: The Advocate

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/021005/sub_violence001.shtml

On February 18, 2005 The Advocate reported, "a team of 20 law-enforcement officers arrested two high school students Wednesday after problems between a student prayer group and a small neopagan group, officials said. Rumors that someone would be killed Wednesday spread during the four-day Mardi Gras weekend and brought a state of hysteria at Jewel Sumner High School on Wednesday, spokesman Chuck Reed of the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said. A State Police bomb squad and officers with police dogs searched lockers, hallways and rooms, while other officers searched book sacks, said Kenner Harrell, commander of the sheriff's Juvenile Division. They found no weapons or other contraband, he said. Unrest arose between a group claiming to practice rituals of Wicca, a neopagan religion, and a Christian group that gathers by the school's flagpole and prays, Reed said."