A 14-year-old student has been charged in a shooting threat at Huffman High School in Birmingham earlier this week.

He is the latest Alabama teen charged in a rash of threats statewide over the past week following the high-profile deadly school shooting in Georgia.

Also Wednesday, Montgomery police announced the fourth arrest of a fourth teen charged with threats of violence at schools in that city.

“I think that we are dealing with a generation that seeks attention at any costs,’’ said Birmingham police spokesman Officer Truman Fitzgerald.

“What we are doing as a law enforcement community, we are showing them whether you are doing it or attention or as a serious threat, we take them all seriously and we’re going to use all available resources regardless of your intent.”

“We’ve seen more incidents of online threats that we’ve ever seen,” he said.

In Birmingham, school resource officers were alerted Tuesday to a social media threat to carry out a shooting Huffman High School and Huffman Middle School.

Schools’ spokeswoman Sherrel Wheeler Stewart said that day that regular activities continued, and the security team was following protocol for high alert.

Fitzgerald said school resource officers, felony assault and narcotics detectives, the department’s Intelligence Unit, the Alabama Fusion Center and FBI agents worked together to identify a suspect.

Investigators carried out a search warrant at an east Birmingham home and that search aided the detectives in their investigation.

The 14-year-old boy, whose name is not being released, was taken into custody Wednesday morning at school. He was interviewed in the presence of his parents, and admitted to making the online threats, Fitzgerald said.

He is charged with first-degree making a terrorist threat and is being held in the Jefferson County Youth Detention Center.

“The Birmingham Police Department will continuously demonstrate that terroristic threats made towards our students will be investigated using all available resources,’’ Fitzgerald said.

In Montgomery, police announced a 14-year-old boy was taken into custody Tuesday on the same charge.

He is the fourth teen charged there. A 13-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and an 11-year-old are charged.

On Sunday, Montgomery Public School city school officials said they were aware of social media posts suggesting potential threats to schools including Bellingrath Middle School and McKee Middle School.

In Southside, in Etowah County, a 15-year-old boy was taken into custody Monday morning and charged with making a terroristic threat after he allegedly made a threat to Southside High School.

Last week saw a flurry of similar reports across the state, which is not uncommon following a high-profile school shooting, the most recent one taking place on Sept. 4 when a 14-year-old shot and killed two teachers and two students at a Georgia high school.

In Dothan, a student was arrested after an alleged threat made on social media of a school shooting at Dothan Preparatory Academy, authorities announced Friday morning.

On Thursday, Eufaula City Schools canceled all classes and after-school activities Thursday after receiving a “threat of violence,” officials said.