In September 2015,14-year-old Texas freshman Ahmed Mohamed was suspended from school and detained by police under suspicion of possessing a hoax bomb, after bringing a home-assembled digital clock to school to show to his engineering teacher.
In September 2015, a 14-year-old freshman at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas was suspended from school and detained by police under suspicion of possessing a hoax bomb. The young man, Ahmed Mohamed, brought a home-assembled digital clock to school to show to his engineering teacher.