A 15-year-old at Cohasset High School has been charged with making terrorist threats after fellow students reported that the boy was talking about hurting classmates and a teacher, police said.

Police Chief William Quigley said the verbal threats were detailed and included references to the recent shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 people dead.

The Cohasset students took their concerns to the school resource officer, Greg Taylor, who notified school administrators. The boy was then located at an after-school program and taken to a hospital for evaluation, Quigley said.

The incident happened on Feb. 16, a day before a week-long school vacation.

The boy, who was not identified because of his age, was later arrested and charged with making terrorist threats and threatening to commit a crime, Quigley said. He said Quincy Juvenile Court ordered a mental health evaluation and home confinement, and also said the boy had to stay away from the school.

The charge of terrorist threats is a felony with a penalty of up to 20 years in prison for an adult, he said.

Quigley praised the “courage and maturity’’ of the students who reported what they had heard.

“Although it appears that the boy has no access to firearms, we take these threats very seriously, and act on them accordingly,’’ he said.

He said the students and teacher who were the subject of the threats were all notified by Cohasset detectives and are working with the Police Department and school district.

In October 2017, a 14-year-old Cohasset Middle School student was charged with threatening to hurt other students with a knife. Quigley said that earlier incident involved a different boy.

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