https://sputnikglobe.com/20210913/florida-teens-charged-with-plotting-columbine-style-mass-school-shooting-1089030344.html
Florida Teens Charged With Plotting ‘Columbine-Style’ Mass School Shooting
Florida Teens Charged With Plotting ‘Columbine-Style’ Mass School Shooting
Sputnik International
The two middle-schoolers were detained on Thursday for a mental health evaluation after a school resource officer at Harns Marsh Middle School was notified... 13.09.2021, Sputnik International
2021-09-13T11:37+0000
2021-09-13T11:37+0000
2021-09-13T11:37+0000
america
florida
mass shooting
marjory stoneman douglas high school
columbine high school shooting
https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e5/09/0d/1089031198_0:32:2561:1472_1920x0_80_0_0_9aa8c8f95970633c70758939a371ed81.jpg
Two teenagers have been accused of plotting to commit a mass shooting at a Florida middle school.Connor Pruett, 13, and Phillip Byrd, 14 were taken into custody on Saturday and placed at a juvenile detention facility where they will be held for 21 days after a judge said he believed the two teens committed a juvenile act.Marceno added that his team of deputies and detectives had acted to prevent “a very violent and dangerous act from being carried out” at Harns Marsh Middle School in Lehigh Acres.‘Columbine’-Style PlotEarlier in the week, a school resource officer at the school was notified that one student was purportedly hiding a gun in his backpack. While investigators failed to find any weapon on Thursday, what they did come across was a map of the school's security cameras, the sheriff's office is cited as saying.A further investigation discovered the teens appeared to have been studying the 20 April 1999, Columbine massacre, when two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher before committing suicide. That attack, which made "Columbine" a byword for school shootings, also involved several homemade bombs. “Columbine” is believed to have inspired several copycats attacks. In 2018, a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., left 17 people dead and 17 others wounded.Lee County authorities claim the two schoolchildren in custody had been trying to figure out how to make pipe bombs and buy firearms on the black market. A search of the students' homes revealed a gun and several knives.Furthermore, the sheriff's office said the teen suspects were “well-known” after multiple calls for disturbances at their homes.Phillip Byrd’s mother, Carrie Tuller, defended her son as just a “little boy… who didn’t think this was really serious.” The next court date for the teenagers is scheduled for September 27.
florida
Sputnik International
feedback@sputniknews.com
+74956456601
MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“
2021
News
en_EN
Sputnik International
feedback@sputniknews.com
+74956456601
MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“
Sputnik International
feedback@sputniknews.com
+74956456601
MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“
america, florida, mass shooting, marjory stoneman douglas high school, columbine high school shooting
america, florida, mass shooting, marjory stoneman douglas high school, columbine high school shooting
Florida Teens Charged With Plotting ‘Columbine-Style’ Mass School Shooting
The two middle-schoolers were detained on Thursday for a mental health evaluation after a school resource officer at Harns Marsh Middle School was notified that a student had a gun in his backpack.
Two teenagers have been accused of plotting to commit a
mass shooting at a Florida middle school.
Connor Pruett, 13, and Phillip Byrd, 14 were taken into custody on Saturday and placed at a juvenile detention facility where they will be held for 21 days after a judge said he believed the two teens committed a juvenile act.
"This could have been the next Parkland massacre, but we stopped them in the planning stages," Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said during a press conference, in a referrence to the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Marceno
added that his team of deputies and detectives had acted to prevent “a very violent and dangerous act from being carried out” at Harns Marsh Middle School in Lehigh Acres.
Earlier in the week, a school resource officer at the school was notified that one student was purportedly hiding a gun in his backpack. While investigators failed to find any weapon on Thursday, what they did come across was a map of the school's security cameras, the sheriff's office is cited as saying.
A further investigation discovered the teens appeared to have been studying the 20 April 1999, Columbine massacre, when two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher before committing suicide. That attack, which made "Columbine" a byword for school shootings, also involved several homemade bombs.
“Columbine” is believed to have inspired several
copycats attacks. In 2018, a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
in Parkland, Fla., left 17 people dead and 17 others wounded.
Lee County authorities claim the two schoolchildren in custody had been trying to figure out how to make pipe bombs and buy firearms on the black market. A search of the students' homes revealed a gun and several knives.
Furthermore, the sheriff's office said the teen suspects were “well-known” after multiple calls for disturbances at their homes.
Phillip Byrd’s mother, Carrie Tuller, defended her son as just a “little boy… who didn’t think this was really serious.” The next court date for the teenagers is scheduled for September 27.
