Tag Archive for: Firearm

Online Bullying Almost Results in High School Attack

The suspect posted a picture of guns and bullets onto his Instagram story, tagging former professional players and his high school.

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Student Makes Threats to Peer

In a conversation with another student the day after the Parkland shooting, the suspect makes threats to commit a mass shooting at their high school.

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SRO Overhears a Student Threat

A security officer at the high school overhears a 17-year-old say the following to another student: “I guarantee you the school will be shot up in three weeks.”

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Father Finds Daughter’s Journal with Plot for Violence

The suspect’s father finds her journal that outlines the plot. Journal entries dated back to December 2016 and described a timeline and phases of the attack.

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Student Turns Himself in to Counselor before Attack

On 6-22-2004, the perpetrator brought two handguns and ammunition in a backpack to the school, arriving at the normal time of approximately 0715 hrs.

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Michigan Tip Line (OK2SAY) Works

Suspect solicited various students for a gun. The suspect continued to solicit students for a gun and told some students at the lunch table who he wanted to shoot before shooting himself.

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Tip Line Receives Report of Twitter Threat to Shoot Up College Campus

A university student posted messages on Twitter threatening to carry out a mass casualty attack on his school. The messages included statements saying, “the campus going to get shot up and who will be to blame.” Another statement read, “You (expletive) are past spent, you (expletive) are going to die in class.”

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Perpetrator Pulls Fire Alarm to Ambush Students in Dorm

A student at a large public university had not enrolled for spring semester and the university was in the process of removing him from his dorm room. Given that the student had recently lost a portion of his employment income and appeared to have nowhere to move, the university was taking an empathetic approach to the removal process instead of abruptly forcing him out.

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College Student Plans Mass Casualty Attack with 3D Printed Gun

A college student sent a text to a fellow student threatening to shoot students at their university. In a text to a second student, the subject said he was going to “commit a shooting that people would be talking about.” The second student forwarded the text to a university professor who notified law enforcement.

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Former College Student Threatens Retaliation

Nine years after graduating, a former student of a small liberal arts college began sending a series of threatening emails to a staff member at the college. The emails escalated in intensity and were accompanied by YouTube videos showing the student with weapons.

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