Indiana mother arrested after bringing gun to school and allegedly threatening to murder lesbian teachers family over LGBTQ assignment

An Indiana mother was arrested after allegedly bringing a gun to her daughter’s elementary school and threatening to murder a lesbian teacher’s family over an assignment she thought was LGBTQ-relatedCarrie Rivers, 48, allegedly stormed into Valley Mills Elementary School in Indianapolis Wednesday with a pistol tucked in her waistband and accosted her daughter’s sixth-grade teacher over “a work assignment that had to do with same-sexuality relationships,” according to an alarming arrest affidavit obtained by NBC News.Officers responding to calls of an “irate parent” on campus confronted Rivers, who called her daughter’s teacher a homophobic slur and said she was withdrawing the girl from Valley Mills in favor of home schooling — when officers asked if she was carrying a gun.“Carrie Rivers stated that she did have a gun as I was removing it from her person,” the responding officer’s affidavit read.“[Rivers] stated that she didn’t even realize that she had it on because she is so used to wearing it and has been on school property with it before.”Rivers was let go, but within a half-hour she was sending vile and threatening messages to the teacher.“God will condemn you to hell,” one of the messages read, while another called the teacher — who has a photo of her wife and child on her classroom desk — “a child predator.”“Say ur prayers and kiss ur kids goodbye and goodnight u never know when god says its our time so be prepared,” read another message allegedly sent by Rivers.Another accused the teacher of telling “precious innocent kids that it’s ok to be in same sex relationships,” while Rivers told police the teacher was “trying to push her personal agenda in regard to sexuality on her daughter,” the affidavit read.The teacher, however, told police the assignment was merely about flags, and that she’d pointed out a rainbow pride flag hanging in the classroom with the words “Be Kind” printed across it as an e...