Nice MAGA for USA! Teens all influenced by sch shooting and wanting to copycat! Huat Ah!

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...attack-high-school-Columbine-anniversary.html

Teen who was 'plotting a Columbine-style massacre on the 21st anniversary of the shooting' is turned over to police by his own MOTHER after she read his journal and discovered he planned to kill her too

• The 17-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday in College Place, Washington
• He was booked for felony harassment and threats to bomb or injure property
• The teen's mother had contacted police after she discovered journals entries detailing his plan to attack College Place High School on April 20, 2020
• He allegedly also wrote about killing his mom and her boyfriend in the journal
• The mother told police she had found some items in her son's room about a month ago which she thought could be used to develop an explosive
• Police said the teen's plot appeared to have been inspired by the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado

By Megan Sheets For Dailymail.com
Published: 15:16 BST, 19 September 2019 | Updated: 15:34 BST, 19 September 2019

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A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for plotting an attack at his Washington state high school on the anniversary of the Columbine massacre after his mother discovered his plans in his journal and contacted police.
The teen, who has not been identified because he is a minor, was taken into custody on Tuesday after he came home from school, according to the College Place Police Department.
He had allegedly written several journal entries detailing his plans to target College Place High School on April 20, 2020.
That date would make the 21st anniversary of the mass shooting at Columbine High School that left 12 students and one teacher dead in Littleton, Colorado.
The Columbine massacre still ranks among the worst school shootings in American history.

A 17-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday for plotting an attack on his high school after his mother discovered his detailed plans in his journal and contacted police. The teen was allegedly planning to target College Place High School (above) in Washington state on April 20, 2020 - the 21st anniversary of the Columbine massacre
The teen also allegedly wrote in his journal that he wanted to kill his mother and her boyfriend.
The mother told police that she had found some items in his room about a month ago which she thought could be connected to developing an explosive, Officer Dylan Schmick told YakTriNews.
In the teen's bedroom, investigators found 'supporting literature' that could have been used to orchestrate an attack.
'There were some other books that we found that he looked like he had been reading that were concerning -- about how to manufacture weapons and a book pertaining to Columbine,' Schmick said.
The officer said they also found a 'manifesto' that the teen wanted to bring with him during the planned attack.
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The suspect was booked on charges of felony harassment and threats to bomb or injure property, police said. He is being held at the Walla Walla Juvenile Justice Center.
'Whether the child was fully intent on this actually happened or not, I mean these statements we have to take with the highest level,' Schmick said. 'We can't fool around with them.'
CPPD Chief Troy Tomaras praised the suspect's mother for turning her son in.
'The mother was very emotional and loves her son,' Tomaras said.
'This was not an easy thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.
'The mother wanted to prevent others from being hurt and wants her son to get the help he needs.'
The high school's resource officer was also involved in the investigation and notified administrators about the incident immediately.
'College Place Public Schools take this very seriously and will be working with the authorities to ensure the safety of all students and staff,' the school said in a statement.
'We encourage all residents, staff and students to be aware of their surroundings and to report any suspicious activity to the authorities.'


The teen's plot was allegedly inspired by the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Police are seen outside the high school after the massacre that left 13 dead

 

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Mother turns in her own son, 17, after finding plans in his journal to carry out a Columbine anniversary shooting at his high school where he'd 'blast anyone in sight' and 'kill everyone possible'

• Police in Washington state in late September arrested a 17-year-old boy on charges of felony harassment and threats to bomb or injure property
• Arrest came after teen's mother, named only as Nicole, found his journal detailing plans to attack College Park High School
• In his notebook, teen wrote about detonating pipe bombs, and using weapons to 'kill everyone possible' and 'execute survivors'
• Nicole said when she confronted her son, he claimed it was a creative writing exercise and 'just a story'

By Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com
Published: 15:02 BST, 7 October 2019 | Updated: 17:10 BST, 7 October 2019

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A mother from Washington state is being hailed a hero after police say she reported that her teenage son's journal contained detailed plans to attack his school on the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
Authorities say the 17-year-old College Place High School student was arrested on September 17 and charged with felony harassment and threats to bomb or injure property.
Authorities say the teen's detailed journal included times, specific firearms and explosives, locations, an established date of April 20, 2020, and plans to kill his mother and her boyfriend.
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'Courageous': Police in College Park, Washington, hailed a woman named Nicole as courageous for reaching out to them after finding her son's journal detailing plans to attack his high school


Nicole's 17-year-old son reportedly wrote about using pipe bombs and various weapons to 'kill everyone possible' at College Park High School on the 21st anniversary of the Columbine massacre next April
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Police say officers informed the southeast Washington school of the threat, but school was already done for the day.
The 17-year-old, who has not been named, was arrested as soon as he returned home from school that afternoon and was booked into the Walla Walla County Juvenile Justice Center.
The suspect's mother, who identified herself only by her first name, Nicole, told CBS News that when she found her son's journal last month and confronted him about it, the boy claimed that he had been doing creative writing and that it was all 'just a story.'

Nicole said her son, pictured above as a toddler, suffers from depression and needs professional help
In his notebook, the high school student wrote about detonating pipe bombs and propane bombs placed inside a backpack, a duffel bags, the school cafeteria and a van parked on campus.
He also reportedly detailed using various firearms to 'blast anyone in sight' and 'execute survivors.'
One chilling passage in the journal read, 'Kill everyone possible, fight to the death,' and 'kill self after maximum damage.'
The alleged attack was planned for the 21st anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre, which left 12 students and one teacher dead before the perpetrators, a pair of seniors, committed suicide.
When police searched the College Park High School student's bedroom, they discovered the books 'The Anarchist Cookbook,' which describes how to make explosives, and 'The Truth Behind Death at Columbine,' reported My Columbia Basin.
Detectives also seized several other notebooks from the teenager's room containing writings about murder and suicide, along with images of shooting guns in school. However, no weapons were found during the search.


College Place Police Chief Troy Tomaras said he was grateful to the boy's mother for coming forward
Mother Nicole told CBS she wrestled with the decision of reporting her son, whom she described as suffering from depression, to the police, but in the end she felt like she did the right thing.
'I know a lot of people that go to College Place High School,' the woman tearfully told the news outlet. 'Their lives would have been forever changed.'
College Place Police Chief Troy Tomaras said he was grateful to the boy's mother for coming forward and described her as 'very courageous.'
The woman said she loves her son and that he needs help.
'It takes a lot to do what I did,' Nicole added. 'It wasn't easy.'

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Two teenage girls face trial in Colorado for 'planning mass school shooting'


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Brooke Higgins and Sienna Johnson, both 16, are accused of plotting to emulate the massacre at nearby Columbine high school

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Social media posts by the accused teenage girls are believed to form an important part of the prosecution’s case. Photograph: Silvia Izquierdo/AP

Two 16-year-olds have been charged with plotting a mass shooting at their suburban Denver high school, in an exceptional case that finds two teenage girls on trial instead of teenage boys.
Brooke Higgins, who was charged on Thursday, and Sienna Johnson, who was charged last week, will both be tried as adults on two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, in a district court in Castle Rock, Colorado. The girls took what the prosecution called “overt acts” towards purchasing firearms in order to carry out their plan, assistant district attorney Jason Siers told the court on Thursday.

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Mass shootings carried out by women are extremely rare – such attacks, defined by the FBI as a single event in which four or more people are killed, are nearly always perpetrated by men. In Mother Jones’s comprehensive count, out of 84 mass murder events since 1982, only three have involved women: San Bernardino, where one of two shooters was female; the shooting on a Native American reservation in Alturas, California, in 2014; and the postal shooting in Goleta, California, in 2006.

Prosecutors said the two girls worshipped the Columbine shooters, and the movie Natural Born Killers. They had specific targets, the prosecution said, but everyone at the school was a potential victim. Entries on social networking sites show moody pictures of blood-spattered walls, and hand-scrawled journal entries filled with anguished prose.

On Thursday, Higgins broke down in tears as district court judge Paul King set her bond at $1m, as he had for Johnson. The day before, Johnson also appeared emotional in court, watching proceedings with an expression of horror, her foot vibrating, her hands constantly worrying at a tissue. She has been scheduled for a psychological evaluation; Higgins has already had one, and was briefly on suicide watch, her lawyers told the court. Both were shackled, in pastel green prison jumpsuits.

The cases are currently under seal, and a motion filed by a consortium of local television stations and the Guardian to remove that seal from the case file was denied by King, though he did allow the trials to take place in open court.

Highlands Ranch, Colorado, is a satellite suburban town about 25 miles south of Denver. Nestled among snowy brush-covered hillocks, its skyline is dominated by the distant Rockies and little else. It is a town of cookie-cutter houses in uniform blue-grey and beige.

Nearby, several town names echo with dismal significance. Columbine, probably America’s most infamous school shooting, is a quarter-hour drive north-west. Aurora, where 12 people were murdered at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises three years ago, is about a half-hour north-east. Colorado Springs, site of two shootings in as many months in October and November 2015, is an hour south.

It was through an anonymous text hotline begun after the 1999 Columbine shooting that the Mountain Vista high school plot was supposedly uncovered. In fact, Columbine looms large over the whole alleged plot. On 10 December, according to the district attorney who confiscated and searched Higgins’s journal and phone, she took a picture of the road outside Columbine high school, and Googled the names of the shooters. She also wrote about how she wished she had done Columbine with them, the prosecution said.

In setting the strict bond conditions for Higgins on Thursday, Judge King addressed the issue of the cult of Columbine directly. “The idea that the incident at Columbine is to be admired, that the people who did that are gods or heroes …” he paused. “There are parents in this city that want to make sure their kids are protected.”

Johnson, according to a biography she posted to a blog, had an unsettled childhood. Her parents divorced when she was two, and she was shuttled from Colorado to Pennsylvania to Florida to South Carolina and back to Colorado again. She expressed anger at lacking a “normal” family; but also an interest in art and music. She says she began rebelling in seventh grade, and was kicked out of her father’s house. At the end of the biography, she wrote: “I still put all my time and energy into the things I enjoy most and hope to be the best I can be.”

Much of Johnson’s social media, including her Facebook and Tumblr page has been taken offline, but some of it is still available in cached form. This is where the Natural Born Killers reference originates. Other posts are titled “my whole existence is flawed” and “kill yourself”.

Photographs on her blog of hand-written journal entries and drawings and paintings point to an artistic talent – though also to an emotional turbulence. “Maybe if you hadn’t made me drunk at midnight I wouldn’t mourn in that hour,” she wrote around a drawing of clasped hands in prayer and a collage of roses.

“I don’t need help / I’m just medicating / I’m not a junkie / I lost feeling,” she wrote. And nearby, the phrase “needle sick” hints at possible substance abuse. But she does not fit the mould of a loner disappearing entirely into an online world; she played in a band, called Riot Vision.

The sheriff’s office and the district attorney have reportedly dropped hints about the evidence they found against Johnson. They claimed the girls had planned their attack in the days running up to Christmas, and that Johnson had practised shooting with BB guns. Authorities also said she had told them when she was arrested that, were she released, she would go back to plotting a shooting.

Less is known publicly about Higgins. She suffers from depression and has been in therapy for it for two years, according to her defense lawyer. She has also struggled with drug abuse in the past. But she had an after-school job and was doing well in school. Her attorney has tried to distance Higgins from Johnson, saying that the two were “high school acquaintances” who had only briefly associated with each other.

But, according to the prosecution, Johnson had written in her diary in 2015 about meeting someone “who’s got what it takes to … make this school a living fucking nightmare”.

“God, Brooke and me will be unstoppable,” Johnson allegedly wrote.

They said the girls had taken steps towards purchasing real firearms; that Higgins had Googled “how can underage people buy guns” and visited Armslist.com, a site known as the “Craigslist for guns”.

Therein, the prosecution’s case goes, lies the conspiracy. “The illegality follows an agreement to do a mass shooting,” Spiers told the court. “When you go to websites that are selling guns, we do believe those are overt acts.”

The argument put forward by Dagny Van Der Jagt, the lawyer defending Higgins, is that these searches by her client, while chilling, do not constitute a crime. She said the DA was accusing her of “thought crimes”, nothing more. She also tried to distance her client from Johnson.

But the DA disagreed. “There was an agreement and they took steps to get weapons based on that agreement,” Spiers said. “They were friends, they hung out outside school, and prior to this had said things individually about shooting up the school, then when they got together they put that plan into motion.”

Preliminary hearings in the two trials are set for the end of February for Higgins, and the beginning of March for Johnson.

 

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ce-arrest-students-reported-plans/2116407001/
'Words and pictures matter': Two Alaska 13-year-olds arrested for middle school shooting plans, police say
Kristin Lam, USA TODAY Published 7:38 p.m. ET Aug. 25, 2019 | Updated 9:27 p.m. ET Aug. 25, 2019

Three mass shooting plots were foiled with the arrests of three men in unrelated cases since the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas. USA TODAY

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Alaska authorities arrested two 13-year-old students for planning to bring a gun to their school and shoot people, the Juneau Police Department said in a release.
Officers took the juveniles into custody Thursday morning at Floyd Dryden Middle School after receiving a report the previous night, police said. It's among the latest in a string of arrests for mass violence threats since the back-to-back shootings this month that killed 31 people in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio.
A classmate overheard the male students discuss the shooting plans, Juneau School District Superintendent Bridget Weiss told The Juneau Empire. The student's parents reported the threat to police.
Police questioned the juveniles before school began Thursday and arrested them for making terroristic threats, a felony offense in Alaska, according to the police department. Classes continued as usual, Weiss said, and the district emailed parents to tell them what happened.
'People are on edge': Mass violence threats – at least 30 in 18 states – have surged since El Paso, Dayton

“We really want students to know there are significant consequences now to making threats like this,” Weiss told the Empire. “Words and pictures matter. They do indicate threat.”
To respond to similar threats, the district has increased security measures and trained staff for active shooter situations, the district's chief of staff, Kristin Bartlett, told local station KTOO.
“Every year, we get a little bit better about putting all of these aspects in place, so that we’re teaching in an environment where people feel secure,” Bartlett told KTOO. “We have preventative measures in place. They’re prepared, and it takes everybody in the school to work together.”
Juneau police previously arrested a student for making terroristic threats in January. A 16-year-old brought a BB gun to Juneau-Douglas High School, putting the campus on lockdown, a news release said. No one was injured, but police noted mass shootings across the country put people on high alert.

 

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Teenager obsessed with mass shootings jailed for buying gun online
‘Chilling’ research into killings found when officers searched Kyle Davies’s Gloucester home

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A teenager who was obsessed with mass shootings has been jailed for 16 years after ordering a firearm and ammunition on the dark web.
Kyle Davies, 19, regarded those behind the massacre at Columbine high school and the Norwegian extremist Anders Breivik as his heroes.
He used the cryptocurrency bitcoin to purchase a Glock 17 handgun and five rounds of ammunition from a gun dealer on the dark web, ordering it for delivery to his family home in Gloucester.
US homeland security officers intercepted the order at Newark airport in New York and tipped off Davies’ local police, who arrested him after delivering a dummy package to his home in July 2018.
Davies insisted he had purchased the gun and ammunition in order to kill himself and denied he was planning a mass shooting.
When officers searched his bedroom they discovered handwritten notes and a USB stick containing more than 1,000 pages relating to explosives and massacres.




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A handwritten nots found in Davies’s house listing equipment including a gas mask, trenchcoat, gloves, boots, body armour and a leg pistol-holder as well as ingredients for explosives. Photograph: Crown Prosecution Service/PA
Sentencing him at Taunton crown court, the judge Paul Cook said: “You had attempted to obtain the equipment and had the intention to endanger life in a shooting event at some point in the future.”

Cook said officers searched Davies’s home after his arrest on 20 June last year and found “disturbing and chilling” research into mass murders.

“Your interest was correctly described as an obsession,” he told Davies. The judge said the “graphic and unpalatable” material, including how-to guides on mass shootings and making explosives, ran to thousands of pages.

“You had taken practical steps as to how to put your plan into execution,” he told Davies. “You worked out your budget, which was in excess of £10,000, and you purchased the equipment to assist you in carrying out a mass killing.”

The judge said Davies’s intended location and targets remained unclear.

Peter Binder, representing Davies, said his client had been diagnosed with autism and depression. “It is speculation as to how far down the road of actually carrying out some form of shooting the defendant would have got,” Binder said.

A jury unanimously convicted Davies of attempting to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life and attempting to possess the ammunition with intent to endanger life following a two-week trial at Gloucester crown court in July.

Davies was an A-level pupil planning to go to university. Until police began searching the teenager’s bedroom, they had no idea of his motive for purchasing the weapon.

Davies used software to clear browsing data each time he closed his laptop but crucially he was using it at the time of his arrest, meaning officers were able to access his online activity that day. This revealed searches for Columbine, as well as how to clean a Glock 17 and searches relating to UK firearms officers.

Police discovered a note on Davies’s bedside table entitled Götterdammerung (twilight of the gods), apparently a reference to Wagner’s opera. It listed equipment required for a mass shooting event including a gas mask, trenchcoat, gloves, boots, body armour and a leg pistol-holder as well as ingredients for explosives.

He had drawn 77 stick people to represent those murdered by Breivik in one page of a schoolbook.

The teenager previously pleaded guilty to two counts of evading the prohibition on the importation of firearms and ammunition, as well as two counts of making indecent images of children.

 

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Dozens of people have been arrested over threats to commit mass attacks since the El Paso and Dayton shootings
By Steve Almasy, Dave Alsup and Madeline Holcombe, CNN

Updated 1458 GMT (2258 HKT) August 22, 2019

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(CNN)Some are teenagers accused of threatening to gun down classmates. Others allegedly issued social media warnings of attacks on store customers or coworkers. Still others are said to have vowed to unleash small arsenals against victims based on their race or religion.


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More than two dozen people have been arrested over threats to commit mass shootings in the weeks since 31 people were killed in one August weekend in shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio,
The raft of cases follows a directive by the FBI director immediately after those two massacres for agency offices nationwide to conduct a new threat assessment in an effort to thwart more mass attacks.
The FBI was concerned that US-based domestic violent extremists could become inspired by the attacks to "engage in similar acts of violence," the agency said in a statement.


The FBI director ordered the agency's field offices to scour the country for mass shooting threats
At least one person now facing charges told deputies he simply wasn't being serious, they said. Joke or not, though, such comments in many places are a felony.
"After the mass violence we've seen in Florida and across the country, law enforcement officers have a responsibility to investigate and charge those who choose to make these types of threatening statements," the sheriff's office involved in that case wrote on its Facebook page.
Here are the known threats with publicized arrests that law enforcement agencies have investigated since the Dayton and El Paso shootings:
August 4: A man from the Tampa area called a Walmart and told an employee he would shoot up the store, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The man faces a false threat charge.
August 7: Police in Weslaco, Texas, arrested a 13-year-old boy. The boy will face a charge of terroristic threat for making a social media post that prompted a Walmart to be evacuated, police said on Facebook. The boy's mother brought him to the station.
August 8: A man is accused of walking into a Walmart in Missouri equipped with body armor, a handgun and a rifle less than a week after a gunman killed 22 people in a Texas Walmart says it was a "social experiment" and not intended to cause panic. The 20-year-old was charged with making a terrorist threat.
August 9: A 23-year-old Las Vegas man is charged with possessing destructive devices after authorities found bomb-making materials at his home. The FBI says he was planning to attack a synagogue and a gay bar.
August 9: A 26-year-old Winter Park, Florida, man was arrested after investigators say he posted a threat on Facebook that he was about to have his gun returned and people should stay away from Walmart.
August 10: Officers responded to a threat a man posted on social media, the Harlingen, Texas, Police Department said in a statement. A man was arrested at his home on charges of making a terroristic threat.
August 11: A Palm Beach County, Florida, mother is accused of threatening to carry out a shooting at an elementary school because her children were being moved there, according to CNN affiliate WFTS. The 28-year-old woman is charged with sending a written threat to commit bodily injury.
August 11: A Mississippi teen is accused of making threats in the Lamar County School District, the agency says on Facebook.
August 12: Authorities charged an 18-year-old Ohio man who the FBI says threatened to assault federal law enforcement officers and showed support for mass shootings in a post online. Court documents say that the teen had a stockpile of weapons and ammunition.
August 12: A 25-year-old Jefferson County, West Virginia, man was arrested on charges of making terroristic threats online to kill people, according to CNN affiliate WDVM.
August 13: Albert Lea Police arrested and charged a 15-year-old Minnesota girl for threatening a school shooting on social media.
August 13: A man was arrested in Phoenix after police say he threatened to blow up an Army recruitment center, according to CNN affiliate KTVK.
August 15: A tip from a citizen led Connecticut authorities and the FBI to investigate and arrest a man who they said expressed an interest in committing a mass shooting on Facebook and had weapons and tactical gear, the FBI and Norwalk Police Department said.
August 15: A 15-year-old girl was arrested in Fresno, California, for posting a photo of a Walmart gun case with rifles displayed and the caption, "Don't come to school tomorrow," the city's police chief said. "The teen's very bright future is now stained by this," he said, adding she was booked with making terrorist threats.
August 16: A 15-year-old boy was taken into police custody in Volusia County, Florida, after investigators say he threatened to commit a school shooting in comments on a video game chat platform.
August 16: Two Mississippi juveniles were arrested in connection with threatening messages to two Tupelo schools, placing a school in partial lockdown, according to CNN affiliate WTVA.
August 16: A Florida man was arrested and charged with threatening to commit a mass shooting after his ex-girlfriend alerted authorities to a series of ominous text messages he sent her.
August 16: A 14-year-old in Arizona was arrested by Tempe Police after online threats were made against a school, according to CNN affiliate KNXV.
August 16: A Chicago man, 19, was arrested after police say he threatened to kill people at a women's reproductive health clinic on iFunny, a social media platform where users can post memes, federal prosecutors said Monday.
August 16: A 35-year-old Clarksburg, Maryland, resident was arrested in Seattle after being charged with threatening to kill people and calling for the "extermination" of Hispanics, according to a statement released by the US attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
August 17: New Middletown Police arrested a self-described white nationalist who they say threatened to shoot an Ohio Jewish community center.
August 18: A man was arrested in Reed City, Michigan, after authorities said he posted online videos making threats toward Ferris State University and other locations, according to CNN affiliate WXMI.
August 18: Claremore, Oklahoma, police arrested an 18-year-old who they say made social media threats against police officer families, according to a Facebook post from the Claremore Police Department.
August 19: A 38-year-old truck driver was arrested after making "credible threats to conduct a mass shooting and suicide" planned for Thursday, an FBI special agent said in a sworn affidavit filed in the Southern District of Alabama.
August 19: Maui Police arrested an 18-year-old man after a social media post claimed he intended to "shoot up a school," according to CNN affiliate KITV.
August 19: A 37-year-old Rapid City, South Dakota, man was arrested and charged with threatening to blow up state and federal government agencies, Pennington County Sheriff's Office said in a post on Facebook.
August 21: A hotel cook was arrested for allegedly planning a mass shooting of his coworkers and guests at a Marriott property in Long Beach, California, the city's police chief said.
CNN's Stella Chan contributed to this report.

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A Mom Said Her Son Was “Just A Little Boy.” Police Said He Could Be The Next “Kid From Parkland.”
Police video showing a mom arguing with an officer who arrested her 15-year-old son for threatening to shoot up a school is going viral amid a spate of similar arrests across the country.

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A 15-year-old high school student was arrested at his home in Volusia County, Florida, on Friday for allegedly making an online threat to shoot up a school.
“I Dalton Barnhart vow to bring my fathers m15 to school and kill 7 people at a minimum,” the teen wrote in a Minecraft chat that was screenshotted and shared on the messaging platform Discord on Thursday.
“Dalton Barnhart” is a pseudonym and not the teen’s real name.
During his arrest, the teen’s mother told officers that her son was “just a little kid playing a video game” and that he shouldn’t be “treated like a terrorist” for making a joke, according to a video of the encounter released by authorities.
“How do we know he’s not going to be the kid from Parkland…that he’s not going to be the next kid, the kid that shot up Sandy Hook,” Detective Brian Howard told the mother. “We don’t know that.”
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office on Monday released body camera footage of the teen’s arrest as a warning, saying, “jokes or not, these types of comments are felonies under the law.”
The video showing the exchange between the officer and the teen’s mother is being shared widely amid a spate of arrests for threats of mass shootings across the country following the recent massacres in Texas and Ohio.




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After the teen made the alleged threat during a gaming discussion on Discord, an anonymous tipster on the messaging platform reported his comment to the FBI on Thursday. Authorities tracked down the teen in the Ormond Beach area by using his Discord username, FalconWarrior920, according to an arrest affidavit provided to BuzzFeed News.
The teen later admitted to authorities that he made the comment about shooting up his school on Discord but insisted he was joking.
Discord banned him from the chat platform after he made the comment.

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A screenshot of the teen’s threat made on Minecraft, which was later shared on Discord. Other usernames were redacted by BuzzFeed News.


The Seabreeze High School student, whom BuzzFeed News is not naming because he is a minor, is facing a felony charge of threat to discharge a destructive device. He was sent to a juvenile detention facility.
A spokesperson for the state’s Department of Juvenile Justice declined to provide details on the teen’s current status. The school did not respond to a request for comment.
“After the mass violence we’ve seen in Florida and across the country, law enforcement officers have a responsibility to investigate and charge those who choose to make these types of threatening statements,” the sheriff’s office said on social media.
During the recorded encounter on Friday, the teen’s mother told one of the officers, “He’s just a little kid playing a video game.”
Detective Howard replied, “And all these kids keep getting arrested. That’s why the FBI and the local law enforcement are spending so much time on this, because how do we know he’s not going to be the kid from Parkland…that he’s not going to be the next kid, the kid that shot up Sandy Hook. We don’t know that.”
A 19-year-old gunman killed 17 people and injured 17 others at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018. A 20-year-old gunman shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children between the ages of six and seven, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.
The mom, who became upset during the conversation, argued that “these kids say stuff like that all the time.”
“It is a joke to them,” she said. “It’s a game.”
She asked why her son was being arrested “just for a comment.”
Howard told her that her son had made a written statement to kill people and carry out a mass shooting or act of terror.
“So if I get on there and say ‘I pledge ISIS and I’m going to blow everybody up,’ that’s the same charge as ‘you know what man, I’m fed up and I’m going to school tomorrow and shoot up my school,’” he told her.

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However, the woman repeatedly insisted that her son was “just a little boy.”
“Yes, he’s 15 but he’s still a little boy,” she said. “He’s not one of the crazy people out there doing stuff … he shouldn’t be treated as though he is a terrorist or something just because he made a silly statement on a stupid video game.”
The mother told authorities that the family did have a gun in the residence, but that her son did not have access to it.
“So he has hands and feet,” Howard responded. “He can grab your gun and go do something.”
To which she replied, “He would never do anything like that.”
“We don’t know that,” the officer said.
Andrew Gant, a spokesperson for the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, told BuzzFeed News that the family did not own an M15 rifle, as the teen wrote in his threat, but that they owned a different gun. Gant did not know the type of weapon and could not comment on how it was secured.
“This is the world we live in where people think it’s funny to say ‘I’m going to go kill people at school,’” Howard told the teen’s mom after her son’s arrest.
Another officer, Deputy Jeff Werfel, who was also on the scene attempted to console the mother, saying that parents always believe that their kids wouldn’t carry out a mass shooting, “but unfortunately someone’s son does.”
“This is the world we’re in where kids are getting shot at school while they’re trying to learn,” Werfel told the mom. “And unfortunately we can’t take risks and we can’t say ‘alright, we trust that this guy is not going to do it’ and then it happens and then we say ‘well, we had the chance to stop it.’”
She then blamed “grown ups” on video game apps who “goaded” her son.
Detective Howard reprimanded her for accusing adults of influencing her son’s behavior.
“You need a roof over your head, food, and water,” he told her. “He doesn’t need the game.”
“He is going to face the consequences,” the officer said.
The teen’s mother did not respond to a request for comment.
Gant, the sheriff’s spokesperson, told BuzzFeed News that law enforcement officers “are frustrated with the frequency of these types of threats and the casual way they’re posted on social media, in chat apps and on other platforms.”
He said that most of the time, the kids who make the threat tell officers they were joking.
“From a law enforcement perspective, after the tragedies we’ve seen here in Florida and across the country, we just can’t have the luxury of tolerance for jokes about mass shootings, because so often they can be indistinguishable from actual threats,” Gant said.
Since the deadly shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, earlier this month, law enforcement agencies have arrested several men for threatening to carry out mass shootings. Most of these threats are made online and have targeted schools, religious and ethnic minorities, and abortion clinics.
On the day of the teen’s arrest, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office also arrested a 25-year-old man for making threats to commit a mass shooting.
Tristan Scott Wix was arrested after he allegedly detailed — in texts to his ex-girlfriend — his plans to “open fire on a large crowd of people” and “break a world record for longest confirmed kill ever.”
“A good 100 kills would be nice,” one text said. “I already have a location.”


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North Carolina student was planning mass shooting at university, police say

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Police arrested a North Carolina university student who admitted to planning a mass shooting at his school, authorities said Wednesday.
Officers charged Paul Steber, a 19-year-old freshman at High Point University in North Carolina, with two felony counts of having a gun on campus and an additional count for making threats of mass violence on Tuesday after a classmate reported him, police said.
Steber allegedly had ammunition and two firearms -- a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol and a double-barrel, 12-gauge shotgun -- in his dorm room when he was arrested. Authorities said he dose not appear to have any criminal history.

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Paul Steber in a police booking photo.
He had been plotting the shooting since December and had studied previous shootings, including the 2015 church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, prosecutors revealed at a court hearing Wednesday.
(MORE: Authorities thwart 3 alleged mass shooting plots over weekend)

Steber, a Boston native, told authorities that he came to North Carolina because it was easier to gain access to guns, prosecutors said. He said he intended to carry out a shooting by Christmas.
Police did not offer specific details about his plans, but prosecutors said Steber desperately wanted to pledge a fraternity and the plot hinged on whether or not he got into one.

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Paul Steber was in possession of two firearms, a 9mm semi-automatic pistol and a black powder/percussion double-barrel 12-gauge shotgun. more +
Prosecutors said he purchased the firearms last weekend in North Carolina, and that he planned to kill himself and his roommate if Steber didn't get into a fraternity and the roommate did.
(MORE: Neo-Nazi charged with plot to bomb gay club, synagogue)
It's unclear if the weapons were purchased legally, but North Carolina law prohibits any person, including a concealed handgun permit holder, from carrying firearms on educational property.
The High Point Police Department praised the student who reported Steber to school administrators in a statement Wednesday.

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Paul Steber was in possession of two firearms, a 9mm semi-automatic pistol and a black powder/percussion double-barrel 12-gauge shotgun. more +
"This incident illustrates the importance of the public reporting suspicious activity to authorities," the statement said. "Information from the public is often the critical first step in preventing acts of mass violence."
High Point University officials issued a similar statement to students and faculty in the wake of the arrest.
(MORE: Texas grandma heroically foils grandson's mass shooting plot by bringing him to hospital)
"Due to the diligence of the students who reported this and the swift response of HPU security, the firearms were confiscated and the matter was turned over to the High Point Police Department," the university said in a statement. "HPU Security and HPPD appreciate that students reported finding the firearms to HPU staff. HPU encourages students to follow the rule of “If you see something, say something.”
Steber was being held on a $2 million bond as of late Wednesday.
ABC News' Darren Reynolds contributed to this report.

 

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The Mom should have bought a gun and then test out who can shoot first.