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A Maryland student has been arrested after police say he threatened to shoot up his high school and former elementary school.
Alex Ye, 18, of Rockville, is alleged to have written a chilling 129-page manifesto detailing plans to gun down his classmates at Thomas S Wootton High School, and his former elementary school.
He was arrested on 17 April and charged with threat of mass violence, a misdemeanour crime punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
He is being held without bond, and a trial date is set for 3 June. The Independent emailed and called an attorney for Mr Ye seeking comment.
Authorities say they were first alerted to Mr Ye’s plan by a friend who had been given access to the man’s Google Doc manifesto. Officers arrived at the student’s home on 3 March to conduct a welfare check but were denied entry to the residence by his father.
The friend told investigators that the student had made several remarks about committing an act of violence.
During a probe of the student’s search history, officials discovered he’d looked up “gun ranges near me”, “minimum age to enter a gun range”, “what counts as a terroristic threat”, obtained written and verbal descriptions of AR-15s and looked for a book about a student that plans to shoot his best friend and then himself.
Speaking at a news conference on Friday, Montgomery County Police Department Chief Marcus Jones said that the suspect had written about wanting to shoot up his former elementary school because “little kids make easier targets”.
He also strategised about how to enter the easiest classrooms in his high school and how he would be able to sneak a gun into the school.
Mr Ye also said he wanted to become a serial killer instead of a mass murderer because “serial killers are romanticised a lot more”, the chief said.……
www.independent.co.uk
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A Maryland student has been arrested after police say he threatened to shoot up his high school and former elementary school.
Alex Ye, 18, of Rockville, is alleged to have written a chilling 129-page manifesto detailing plans to gun down his classmates at Thomas S Wootton High School, and his former elementary school.
He was arrested on 17 April and charged with threat of mass violence, a misdemeanour crime punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
He is being held without bond, and a trial date is set for 3 June. The Independent emailed and called an attorney for Mr Ye seeking comment.
Authorities say they were first alerted to Mr Ye’s plan by a friend who had been given access to the man’s Google Doc manifesto. Officers arrived at the student’s home on 3 March to conduct a welfare check but were denied entry to the residence by his father.
The friend told investigators that the student had made several remarks about committing an act of violence.
During a probe of the student’s search history, officials discovered he’d looked up “gun ranges near me”, “minimum age to enter a gun range”, “what counts as a terroristic threat”, obtained written and verbal descriptions of AR-15s and looked for a book about a student that plans to shoot his best friend and then himself.
Speaking at a news conference on Friday, Montgomery County Police Department Chief Marcus Jones said that the suspect had written about wanting to shoot up his former elementary school because “little kids make easier targets”.
He also strategised about how to enter the easiest classrooms in his high school and how he would be able to sneak a gun into the school.
Mr Ye also said he wanted to become a serial killer instead of a mass murderer because “serial killers are romanticised a lot more”, the chief said.……
Teenager arrested for plotting mass shooting after manifesto revealed chilling plans
Police alerted by a friend who had been given access to Google Doc on planned shooting
www.independent.co.uk