A lawyer representing two teenage suspects appeared in court on Tuesday following a threat against a local school.

Two Chapel Hill High School students were arrested and charged with making a false report of mass violence on educational property on Monday, and defense attorney Amos Tyndall appeared in court representing the teenagers on Tuesday afternoon.

17-year-old Shane Long allegedly sent a message to his stepbrother, 16-year-old Caleb Ethridge, via the social media site Snapchat on Monday with a picture of two boxes of ammunition with the caption, “Ready to shoot the school up!”

Ethridge then allegedly sent the same picture and caption out on Twitter.

Officials in the Chapel Hill – Carrboro School system were alerted of the message on Monday morning.

Long and Etheridge were questioned by Chapel Hill Police and arrested on Monday evening.

District Court Judge Beverly Scarlett extended the suspects curfew on Tuesday afternoon to run from seven o’clock in the evening to seven o’clock in the morning. Scarlett also ordered the suspects to attend school every day, unless they had a doctor’s note excusing their absence, and complete coursework as it was assigned by their teachers. The suspects were ordered to not possess or consume any alcohol or controlled substance, except by prescription, or to possess any firearm, weapon, explosive device or ammunition.

Tyndall said in court that the suspects would likely be disciplined by the school but did not want to comment on the record after the hearing, saying that it was too early to have much information.

Both suspects are being charged as adults on the class H level one felony, meaning the suspects could each face a maximum of eight to 19 months in prison, according to Orange County sentencing guidelines.

North Carolina and New York are the only two states in the country that treat 16 and 17 year old suspects as adults, regardless of the crimes they are accused of.

Long and Etheridge are due back in court on January 8, 2016.