Two teenagers in Florida were arrested for planning a mass shooting at a school

Two Florida teens are in jail today after city officials arrested Fort Myers, On the west coast of the Florida peninsula, they discovered they had concrete plans to carry out a mass shooting at their middle school, Which would have been comparable to the murders committed on February 14, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the city of Parkland in South Florida, where 17 people died (14 students and 3 school employees).

The incident occurred at Marsh Middle School. A student alerted a teacher that one of the now detainees had a gun in his backpack. Immediately, the school authorities intervened and determined that the student was working in combination with another student. The minors, two men aged 13 and 14 years, They are now detained in a juvenile prison facing off conspiracy charges to carry out a mass shooting.

“This may have been the new Parkland massacre“But we managed to stop everything when it was in the planning period,” he told the local press Carmine Marceno, Lee County Police Chief, about two hours west of Parkland.

When checking the belongings of the minors they did not find weapons, but a map of the school where the security cameras were marked. Young people are classmates in the eighth grade.

Upon intervening the police discovered that the children were studying in detail how the Columbine massacre in 1999 had taken place. By that time, two students had entered Littleton, Colorado High School armed, killing 12 students and a teacher. Fort Myers students had details of what the Columbine Assassins operation had been like.

As part of the plan, the minors were investigating how to Build Homemade Fools and How to Get Weapons on the Black Market A gun and several hunting knives were found in the home of one of the children.

In the case of minors, their identities remain reserved. But police gave details of the families, in the home of one of the minors police officers have attended the house at least 80 times in recent years for several violent incidents.

While waiting for the first hearing for the youth, the corrections department will put them down psychological assessment.

The superintendent of schools in Lee County, Ken Savage, Confirmed that the rest of the students at the school were never at imminent risk.

“I want to thank Chief Carmine Marceno and her team for acting so quickly and keeping our students and workers safe,” Savage said.

In this type of case where the aggressors are minors, judges have the discretion to decide whether young people will be tried as minors, which would shorten their sentences, or as adults. In situations where a homicide did not materialize, it is difficult to judge them as elders.

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