A Maryland high school student was arrested and charged with threat of mass violence after police say they discovered evidence revealing the teen had plans to commit a school shooting, authorities said Thursday.
The arrest on Wednesday came after authorities discovered a 129-page document they say was written by 18-year-old Alex Ye, the Montgomery County Department of Police said in a news release Thursday.
Authorities learned of the writings following an exchange Ye had via Instagram messaging with an unidentified person who felt a school shooting was “imminent,” according to the teenager’s arrest warrant. The unidentified person knew Ye from an inpatient treatment at a local psychiatric facility, the warrant says.
Ye referred to the writings as “his memoir,” which begins with a disclaimer that it is a work of fiction, the arrest warrant says.
Welp, guess the “in Minecraft” defense doesn’t work.
He hasn’t been convicted yet.
Slam dunk case for his defense, it is clearly a work of fiction, as indicated, and merely an intellectual exercise and a valuable study of the vulnerabilities of the hypothetical target that law enforcement should learn from and compensate the young man for.
Glad that little shit was stopped. He should have planned to film himself playing with sparklers after a petrol bath if he wanted to get famous.
The article put these two lines out of order. Let me fix that for them:
“In the document, Ye writes about committing a school shooting, and strategizes how to carry out the act. Ye also contemplates targeting an elementary school and says that he wants to be famous,” police said in the news release. A search warrant obtained by investigators “led to internet searches, drawings and documents related to threats of mass violence.”
Ye referred to the writings as “his memoir,” which begins with a disclaimer that it is a work of fiction, the arrest warrant says.
That’s a ‘work of fiction’ along with OJ’s book about how he would have killed his ex-wife and her boyfriend.
129 pages!?! Wtf…
I just wrote training documentation on an IT technology and it wasn’t even that long.
I love how they never say why the kid says he was going to shoot up the school. Couldn’t be because of being horribly bullied… Naw.
I don’t think bullying alone would make one write a 129 page manifesto about shooting up an elementary school, unless of course the 18 year old was being bullied by 4th graders.
For Columbine specifically, while the killers claimed they were doing it because of bullying, it turns out that was nearly entirely a bullshit justification. Even if it was, two wrongs don’t make a right.
That implies the are justifications for shooting up a school that are valid.
There are no such justifications, so the reason doesn’t matter
