http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/15/gra...s-say.html

Quote:A student in Washington state was arrested Tuesday after his grandmother called authorities to report "upcoming and credible threats" of a plot in his journal to attack a high school after flipping a coin, officials said.

The Everett Police Department said in a news release the grandmother contacted authorities around 9:30 a.m. and showed police excerpts of the journal, which "detailed plans to shoot students and use homemade explosive devices at ACES High School." Officers were also told by the grandmother that 18-year-old Joshua Alexander O'Connor had a rifle stored in a guitar case, which she discovered after reading the journal.

"That would have probably been one of the hardest calls she has probably ever made, but I think that the content of the journal and some of the other evidence in the house was enough that she was alarmed enough," Everett Police Officer Aaron Snell told Q13 News.

Authorities arrested O'Connor at the school, where he was found carrying marijuana and a knife. During his arrest, the student managed to slip one of his hands out of the handcuffs and tried to run from police, kicking an officer during the attempted escape.

Detectives later executed a search warrant on the grandmother’s house, where he lived and where they seized the journal, a rifle, "military styled inert grenades and other evidentiary items," according to the release.

Quote:"I'm preparing myself for the school shooting. I can't wait. My aim has gotten much more accurate... I can't wait to walk into that class and blow all those f_____ away," an entry in the journal read, according to the court documents.

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The 18-year-old also wrote he wanted the death count to be as high as possible so that the shooting would be infamous, according to court papers obtained by The Daily Herald. His journal entries included details about making pressure-cooker bombs, activating inert grenades and deploying explosives for maximum casualties, court papers said.

"I need to make this count," O'Connor wrote. "I've been reviewing many mass shootings/bombings (and attempted bombings) I'm learning from past shooters/bombers mistakes."

Quote:School officials on Wednesday said the grandmother set the perfect example for preventing a possible tragedy, the same day a former student killed 17 people at a high school in South Florida.

"The best defense against this kind of thing, the school shooting is, that if you hear something or see something is tell authorities. And that’s exactly what she did," Mukilteo School District spokesperson Andy Muntz told Q13 News. "I know it had to have been really hard for her to do that, to turn in her grandson like that. But she quite honestly probably saved a lot of lives including her grandson."

Kap keeps hitting home runs.

I'm guessing this kind of thing happens more frequently than we know.

(02-15-2018 04:43 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Kap keeps hitting home runs.

yep

(02-15-2018 04:56 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(02-15-2018 04:43 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Kap keeps hitting home runs.

yep

I mean, I'm sure even a lot of people on the left would agree - if you can make something like this a regular thing, that would help a lot in cutting out a few more tragedies. That is all I ask.

This latest shooting happened exactly on the 10-year anniversary of the shooting at NIU. Quite sad.