Two teenagers have been arrested after authorities said they plotted to commit a mass shooting at a Florida middle school.
Two teenagers were arrested Thursday after authorities said they plotted to commit a mass shooting at a Florida middle school.
The 13- and 14-year-old boys were charged with conspiracy to commit a mass shooting after a student told a teacher that one of them had a gun in his backpack Wednesday at Harns Marsh Middle School in Lehigh Acres, about 15 miles east of Fort Myers, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said during a"This could have been the next Parkland massacre, but we stopped them in the planning stages," Marceno said, referring to theMarceno continued:"We were one second away from a Columbine...
Two students are accused of plotting a Columbine-style massacre at Harns Marsh Middle School in Lehigh Acres, Florida.Investigators searched an eighth grader's bag after they were tipped off, but did not find a gun, the sheriff's office said. Instead deputies found a map of where the school's security cameras were located.Columbine massacre
that was planned by two troubled students who murdered a dozen classmates and a teacher before they killed themselves, Marceno said. Authorities also accused the teens of trying to learn how to construct pipe bombs and how to buy firearms off the black market. Deputies executed search warrants at both students' homes and found a gun and several knives, according to the sheriff's office. In total, Marceno said authorities searched the boys' home nearly 80 times.Two students are accused of plotting a Columbine-style massacre at Harns Marsh Middle School in Lehigh Acres, Florida.Harns Marsh Middle School and Lee County Schools District did not immediately respond to an NBC News request for comment Friday.
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