A 19-year-old student was arrested Thursday for allegedly plan a mass shooting on the campus of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, in Daytona Beach (northeast coast of Florida), in what could have been a massacre like the one perpetrated at the Columbine (Colorado) high school in 1999.
The young man has been detained by police officers as he left his apartment armed with a folding semi-automatic rifle and hundreds of bullets and chargers in his backpack. “We have arrested a student in Embry Riddle who planned to shoot on campus (college) on the last day of class (today) before winter break,” said Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young. He has been charged with the crimes of “terrorism, threats to kill and attempted murder in the first degree.”
The arrested person will remain in custody without the right to bail until your first appearance before the judge. The arrest was possible thanks to the fact that a couple of students who were part of a group on Snapchat (a mobile messaging application) were alarmed by the threats that had done in a series of text messages, and decided to alert the campus security agents.
JH had uploaded messages to social platforms suggesting that he was going to carry out a mass shooting on the last day of class at the university, precisely when it was full of students because it was the “final day of exams,” the Daytona Beach Police Chief said at a press conference.
One of the young man’s messages read: “I finished my school purchases”, referring to the 9mm caliber KelTec folding rifle that he carried in his backpack along with almost 300 bullets and ammunition magazines. “Thank God those two students went ahead and prevented Embry Riddle Aeronautical University from being the next national media story regarding a mass shooting at that campus,” Young said while showing the backpack in custody and the weapons they found. .
The young man confessed that he had made those threats, but told the detectives who questioned him that it was all a joke. Young has added that when he received the call about this incident, he immediately The mass shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan came to mind, on November 30, but he was later surprised to learn that Hagins had been thinking about the mass shooting that occurred at Columbine: “He said he would go to campus to do a (shooting) like Columbine.”
The Columbine massacre shocked the world. Two young men dressed in black raincoats stabbed and shot dead 12 of their classmates and a teacher at the institute where they were studying.
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