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 LITCHFIELD, Conn. — Questions about when a menacing costume verges on a criminal threat swirled around this rural town after two high school sophomores were arrested and accused this week of dressing as the Columbine killers for Halloween and threatening to hurt other students. The students, whose names have not been released because they are juveniles, also appeared in court on charges of inciting injury to persons or property, a felony, and breach of peace, a misdemeanor. Exclusive Future Uncertain for State CHAMP Fleet 
 
 As police investigated, they identified the two sophomores as suspects and learned after interviewing the suspects and witnesses that the teens made "threats of bodily harm to other students at Litchfield High School," according to police. He acknowledged they were dressed in distasteful costumes but said they did not have “any object that can be used or perceived as a weapon.” 
 
 A group walked up to them, according to Mr. Moraghan’s account, and after commenting that they looked like the Columbine High School killers, someone added, “I bet you’re going to shoot up the school.” 
 
 Mr. Moraghan said, “There was a sarcastic response to that, and that was basically the end of it.” He said one girl told her parents, who then called the police. The Litchfield Public Schools superintendent, Lynn K. McMullin, said in an email on Wednesday that “there was no credible threat and students were never in physical danger.” She did not respond to a message left for her on Thursday.
– A bad-enough costume can ruin your life, not just your Halloween, two high school students in Connecticut have discovered. The teenagers were arrested and sent to a juvenile detention center this week after authorities found out they had gone out for Halloween dressed as the Columbine school shooters and allegedly threatened other students in the small town of Litchfield, the New York Times reports. The local school superintendent says school officials contacted police when they were informed about the pair. "The costume was essentially black trench coats, baseball caps, and sunglasses," she tells NBC Connecticut, adding that there was never any evidence of a credible threat. The boys, who will likely be expelled from school, were charged with inciting injury to persons or property, which is a felony, as well as breaching the peace, NBC reports. Dressing up as school shooters was definitely a terrible idea, especially in a town less than an hour from the site of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, a lawyer for one of the teens admits, but he tells the Times that the boys didn't have anything that could be perceived as a weapon, and the "threat" was a sarcastic remark made after someone told them, "I bet you're going to shoot up the the school." He says the boys are "so remorseful for their stupidity" and getting kicked out of school "is going to be really, really hard on both of them." (A soldier at Fort Bragg dressed up as a suicide bomber for Halloween.)