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.
Authorities say 18-year-old Alex Ye threatened a shooting at his Maryland high school and discussed killing students in a document he wrote and shared with a friend. The friend alerted authorities. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor reports.
The Montgomery County Department of Police (MCDP) arrested an 18-year-old Wootton High School student on Wednesday who is accused of planning a school shooting. MCDP said it seized a 129-page “manifesto” from 18-year-old Alex Ye,
Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, say they were able to prevent a school shooting planned by a teen. Alex Ye, 18, a student at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, was arrested Wednesday and charged with threats of mass violence,
Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones said the 18-year-old “strategized on how to access the easiest classrooms in his high school and how he would be able to sneak a gun into the school."
A Maryland teenager was charged with threatening mass violence after investigators in Montgomery County found a 129-page “memoir” the 18-year-old had written that described shooting up a high school and elementary school,
A high school student in Maryland was arrested Wednesday for an alleged mass shooting plot at Wootton High School that was stopped by state and federal officials, according to the Montgomery County Police Department.